[wellylug] hard drive problem

[Bill Christiansen]

It does sound like thrashing but it runs fine from the livecd so I'm
sure my 192 MB rams OK. I downloaded a test program from the drive
manufacturer's site and it confirmed corrupted sectors that could not
be repaired.
Bill

On 7/15/05, Mark Robinson <wellyluglist at zl2tod.net> wrote:
> Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >I think the 4GB HDD on my old P2 laptop has developed a bad block or
> >two. I first noticed it when ever I started synaptic there was an
> >
> 
> This sounds like a machine that is "thrashing" ... spending all it's
> time swapping stuff on and off the disk to make up for a lack of
> physical memory.
> 
> Is all the RAM still working ?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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