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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 12-14-2009 03:36 PM

Ok, so now my laptop hard drive was on the verge of taking a crap and I decided to give Windows 7 a try as the host OS. Looks ok so far, but I think I still need to turn some stuff off. Sometimes things still seem to hang for a few seconds for no reason at all.

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Paul J. Neuhaus
Expert Film Handler

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From: Iraq.. Again!
Registered: Jun 2005

posted 12-14-2009 10:07 PM

a painted turd is still a turd get a new hdd.
Or, download a drive utility from the drive manufacturer. This is usually a file that you can burn to a bootable cd and run diagnostics on the drive so it is not mounted and running your OS at the same time. There may be bad sectors or something that can be repaired or blocked out from use of any operating system.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 12-14-2009 11:14 PM

I agree. Back up any data you would like to keep off that notebook hard disc IMMEDIATELY.

I've been through this crap a few times already. The original HDD in my current notebook failed after its 3rd year of service. Thankfully I was already using external drives for backup purposes so the change to a new 80GB HDD at the time didn't hurt much.

My office PC has two physical hard drives inside the CPU case. I store NOTHING important on the boot hard disc. Additionally, that PC has a 1 terabyte external HDD attached doing simultaneous backup chores.

Keeping the boot hard disc free of personal files makes it quite a bit easier to wipe out a bugged-to-fuck Windows installation and starting clean. I had to do this 3 weeks ago on my office PC after one of Microsoft's recent security bullshit patches screwed up a couple of my design programs where I could no longer use text functions. Select a font in CorelDRAW = CRASH. Restart. Hit Ctrl+F12 on the Dell logo. Factory restore. Have fun for the next few hours reinstalling applications. Adobe Production Studio CS4 is a nice 1.5 hour slog through 4 DVD install discs. Ugh. Oh and I forgot the Roland VersaWorks install. The base DVD is easy. It's the 1.5GB of updates you have to download overnight that's the real bitch! At least I still have all my data. That's what counts.

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 12-15-2009 07:37 AM

Sorry I wasn't clear in my post, guys. I've had this drive for about two years in this laptop and it's not worth it to me to spend time trying to figure out what's wrong with it. For $100 I have a new drive. All of my stuff is running on virtual machines in VMWare 7. All of my data resides on the host OS in a folder that is shared between the VMs (most of which are XP). Normally it would take me about a week to reinstall everything that I use on a new hard drive, but with VMWare the whole process took about four hours. And Yeah, I know what you mean about CS4! That's one of the apps I use.

I do back everything up to an external drive periodically. If I end up not liking Windows 7 I can switch completely back to Linux in less than a day. I am looking forward to being able to watch my blu-rays on Windows 7 though, which is something that's not easy to do on Linux.

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