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On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: |
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> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for |
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>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. |
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> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail |
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> gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power |
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> the machine on for the first time in the morning. |
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> What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? |
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First it wouldn't mount in during startup. |
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Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. |
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It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. |
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Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. |
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allan |
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