From: "Geo" 

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
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> 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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