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| Thread ID: 110301 | 2010-06-11 04:59:00 | computer not booting properly | lakewoodlady (103) | Press F1 |
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| 1109204 | 2010-06-19 10:18:00 | Thanks for the offer Roger. Yes I realize you must have made a mistake with the SP. I would need WinXP Professional by the way. LLThat's what it is XP PRO SP3 |
Roger Hunt (13648) | ||
| 1109205 | 2010-06-20 01:17:00 | Hi Roger, Thanks for offer, will let you know. LL Cheers |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1109206 | 2010-06-20 01:19:00 | W00t! Seatools is now testing the drive! So far it has passed the Short test. Now doing Long test. LL :clap |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1109207 | 2010-06-20 01:33:00 | If it passes the long test it may be worth taking up the offer from Roger and do a reinstall then. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1109208 | 2010-06-20 02:06:00 | I pm'd you | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1109209 | 2010-06-20 02:06:00 | W00t! Seatools is now testing the drive! So far it has passed the Short test. Now doing Long test. LL :clap Awesome, but why I recommend HDAT2 is because Seatools doesn't tell you SMART status The drive may pass both short and long tests and still be dodgy (I have had this happen before) it can happen that the drive has multiple reallocated sectors (which indicates a problem), but all the sectors at the time of testing test OK, and so the drive is marked as OK. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1109210 | 2010-06-20 02:16:00 | It does tell you if the SMART status has been tripped though. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1109211 | 2010-06-20 02:56:00 | It does tell you if the SMART status has been tripped though. That's true but only by what it considers to be 'tripped' A drive may have 50 reallocated sectors yet the limit may be 200. To a human the drive definitely has problems yet Seatools will say it's OK. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1109212 | 2010-06-20 03:00:00 | The other difficulty in this case is that Lakewoodlady only has a USB keyboard and I had to change to a PS/2 effort in order to type commands in HDAT2. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1109213 | 2010-06-20 03:10:00 | It said that SMART had NOT been tripped, so is that good or bad? | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
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