[vox-tech] failing hard drive...

[Alex Mandel]

Henry House wrote:
> På 2006-12-08, skrev Rod Roark:
>> On Friday 08 December 2006 11:52, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>> ...
>>> So I must have bad sectors somewhere in the physical region of the first 
>>> partition.  Will this problem get worse and propagate to my other 
>>> partitions?
>> Um, yeah.  Back up anything you care about *immediately* and get a
>> replacement drive ASAP.
>>
>> Most currently manufactured drives are quite good.  I've had good luck
>> reliability-wise with Seagate.
> 
> Jonathan: if it were my drive, I would not trust it to store anything
> important ever again. As for new drives, I have experienced hardware
> failures with every brand I've tried, with the exception of expensive
> SCSI drives.  Assuming that you want to stick with ATA hardware, I've
> heard from Ryan Castelluci that Seagates drives are the best bet for
> reliability.
> 
>
I agree(Seagate) from experience and the fact that they have 5 year 
warranties instead of the standard 3.

Once you get backed up, for kicks run some things like testdisk in linux 
to probe around your old drive. I'm sure there are some other sector 
testing utilities, just to give an idea about how bad the drive is.

Alex