Hi Chuck,
My C drive is the original 80GB drive, and is 6 yrs old. If I replace it,
what is the currently preferred manufacturer, and what software would you
use to clone the drive? Do you open up the case and connect the new drive
to a cable and clone it that way, or do it over a USB connection?
The last HD I bought was WD, and it seems to be fine. It is my external
eSATA photo drive.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Strictly OT: System Crash
> Sounds like an "ordinary" disk I/O error... one of the only 1 in 10**14
> bits (or some such) that are eventually due to plague you. I suspect
> (but don't know) that the flurry of disk I/O activity upon reboot was
> probably the NTFS file system trying to figure out what was wrong with
> itself and correct it if possible. You don't say what you did to
> eventually recover but I suppose it doesn't matter if you're now up and
> running.
>
> If your disk drive is about 3 years old or more I'd replace it on the
> grounds of a cheap insurance policy. Get a new drive and clone the old
> before it's too late. In general I have found that my drives last at
> least 3 years and are generally technically obsoleted before they wear
> out. But I did have a 6 month old 1TB Seagate drive (used as my primary
> images storage) give up the ghost within the past two weeks or
> therabouts. But it was kind enough to tell me it was failing, or, more
> specifically, that it was likely to fail at some unknown time in the
> future. Apparently the correctable read error rate had risen to an
> unacceptable level and the S.M.A.R.T system intervened and advised me to
> replace the drive. Had it been a RAID drive it would have automatically
> rebuilt a replacement. First time I've ever seen a S.M.A.R.T. system
> message and intervention.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 6/8/2011 2:51 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Strictly OT, but I have a question. I was copying some files to a CD
>> this morning, and, while the CD was being finalized, to enable it to
>> be used by others, my Windows XP system crashed. A DOS screen came
>> up that I have never seen before. I shut down and rebooted, but the
>> HD just kept showing steady activity. I tried restore points back to
>> a week earlier, but they all failed. Has anyone encountered anything
>> like this?
>>
>> After many attempts at restarting, I am finally up and running again.
>> I have created a new restore point, just in case.
>>
>> After almost two hours, I am a WRECK!
>>
>> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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