From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The two for the company, were about 2 years old that I replaced.  Mine,
when I got this A21P about 3 years ago, came with a 32gig, and it's been
running fine all along.  I had such a complex install on my old 770ED, that
it took me a day or to get everything moved.  In that instance, I used the
770, and the docking extra HD bay to mount the drive from the A21, which I
blew away, and cloned the 770 over to it, then let the OS re-detect all the
hardware, and then add all the specific drivers.  That way, I literally
moved everything to the new machine.

Then I installed Partition Magic to resize all the existing partitions.  I
went from a 25 gig to the 32 and moved the sizes around a bit.  At one
point, the 770 was setup as a Dual Boot system, back into OS/2.

We've had several desktop machines that got that same creeping crud
slowdown, where there was a bunch of HD activity trying to start
applications and such.  Nothing actually crashed, or refused to load.  All
the disk checking utils said the disk was fine, but migrating to a new HD
solved the speed problem.  Apps loaded like they did the day they were
installed.  Those were eMachines, so who knows how reliable the drives
actually were.  I trashed the drives after the transplant was completed.
(Hammer to the case and platters...that was fun...)

--
Glenn M.


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> I bought one adapter and I use Powerquest to image the drive to a file
then
> switch drives and reload the image. Problem is when the drive has bad
> sectors this doesn't work
>
> I then went and bought an Xtreme files drive, the one button system back
USB
> thing, it too hands trying to get a clean image and I found out that I'm
> missing something on my thinkpad to enable USB 2.0 so it sucks info real
> slow and takes forever to run a backup.
>
> Gonna try again this weekend.
>
> Sure is strange that I've had 2 laptops with drive problems lately, how
long
> ago did yours act up? Wonder if it's really failed drives or some patch or
> virus or something along those lines?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:42002f29$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I concur with that observation.  We had one of our Dell laptops getting
> > slower and slower, lots of drive activity, no everything loading slow.
> Did
> > a Ghost clone of the drive onto a new one (went from a 10 gig to a 25),
> > replaced the drive and all the troubles went away.
> >
> > I bought 2 of the laptop to IDE adapter connectors so I can put the old
> and
> > new drive on the two controllers of a desktop machine, run Ghost from a
> > floppy boot, and let it do it's thing.  I keep those 2 adapters on
cables
> in
> > my desk drawer. They come in really handy quite often. 
> >
> > --
> > Glenn M.
> >
> >
> > "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > > At a guess the HD is failing. I've had 2 laptop drives go in the past
3
> > > months. First thing you notice is extra drive activity, I figured it
was
> > > reading the same sectors again and again trying to get the data with
no
> > > errors. Every time I would chkdsk I would see more bad blocks.
> > >
> > > Run chkdsk 3 times, if you see more bad blocks each time then the
drive
> is
> > > going.
> > >
> > > Geo.
> > >
> > > "David Blair"  wrote in message
> > > news:41ffcc75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > I have a laptop, 2.8ghz Celeron, 512mb RAM, ultra slow 30 gig HD.
> (Hey,
> > > it's
> > > > a laptop, after all. Why DO they insist on using 4300
rpm drives?)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > A couple of weeks ago, this suddenly started running VERY slowly.
Lots
> > of
> > > HD
> > > > access. But no spyware shows up with AdAware or SpyBot, and no
viruses
> > are
> > > > detected. I've defragged it about 7 zillion times.
> > > >
> > > > I get a bad block error showing my event viewer, but
CHKDSK doesn't
> seem
> > > to
> > > > mark it when it runs at startup.
> > > >
> > > > Why would I be running so horrendously slow? Any ideas where to
look?
> > And
> > > > how do I get the bad block locked out?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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