From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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
news:4200168d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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