[rescue] Another Reason Windows Sucks

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Mon Jul 8 23:11:53 CDT 2002


> When I upgraded my Inspiron 8000 to a Latitude C810 my WinXP
> everything seemed to be okay for a couple of days, then so
> may problems came up that I was forced to do a fresh install,
> whict still didn't help.  I finally ran the diagnostics and
> found out that a sector on the hard disk was bad.
>
> A special format with options to lock out bad sectors was
> required.

I thought all the whiz-bang IDE drives in the laptops these days did that
automagically.  Once you started getting bad sectors reported to the OS,
then it was time to throw the disk out.



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