greatman05
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Ok, guys, I have a serious problem now. One of the hard drives I have has a bad Track 0. I didn't get this error, but I noticed it when I used spinrite to try to recover the drive. Any way to fix track 0?
just be careful and don't get bit, it's real easy to be penny wise and dollar foolish here. consider the impact of lost time and maybe even some lost data *IF* it dies. S.M.A.R.T. failure is the MFG telling you to be careful!:knock:greatman05 said:...While S.M.A.R.T says the drive is failing (It's only been in the best of conditions and only in use for 5 yrs...) I'm confident that the HDD will still work after the regenerative process. (Besides, I can't afford a new one, and I still want to have 3 comps...)
sure; I've got a Quantum from back in '89 and it's 100% reliable; zero bad tracks from day-1 and still 'til today(I'm sure that many of you have very old HDDs that still work....)
mfg: common abreviation for manufacter.greatman05 said:What does MFG mean? Oh and thanks, just wanted to have a little fun. It's still repairing the drive right now, and when it finishes, I will try to ReInstall WinXP on the drive. On and another thing: Why does old technology remain reliable and working while new technology ****s up all the damn time?
no, that's just simple HD physics and the consequence ofgreatman05 said:...Mabye we should reurn to the good ol' days of DOS...LOL
SCSI controllers have this feature to PARK on power offgreatman05 said:Uh-huh....So DOS did less wear and tear on hard drives?
SPF. A term used in hi reliability systems where duplication and replication aregreatman05 said:? A single point failure?
To my understanding, there's a special cylinder with a ramp that when told toSNGX1275 said:Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
In DOS the hd head was parked unless it was writing or reading from the disk, which is why you didn't have to "shutdown" before turning off the computer, you could just press the switch.