[rescue] Another Reason Windows Sucks

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Tue Jul 9 06:17:25 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.

That's what I thought, too, and I plan to get the disk replaced
under warranty.
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