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- From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: A very unnerving message
- Message-ID: <MSALETNI.93Jan6121034@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:10:49 GMT
- Sender: news@news.tufts.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
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- As I was working yesterday, I had a few intense processes going. As a
- result, when I opened a folder, my drive started going nuts.
- Suddenly, I heard a sound that reminded me all too well of my last
- hard drive when its heads slammed into the platters. Only louder and
- much worse. I received the message:
- A defective sector on drive D: has been replaced.
- No data was lost.
- You should run CHKDSK soon to restore full performance
- and to replenish the spare sector area of the volume.
- This was an HPFS disk.
-
- Now, what *really* happened? Is this legit? Based on the sound from
- the drive, I thought it was tracking off the end of the disk. I can't
- imagine that kind of bang, grind, and click (yup, all three) from
- merely failing to find a sector.
-
- When I booted from floppy and ran CHKDSK, it told me:
- CHKDSK corrected a minor filesystem error
- Great message, eh?
-
- Any thoughts are welcome...
- Thanks,
- Michael
- --
- Michael J. Saletnik, Tufts University E'91 G'93
- michael@binkley.ext.tufts.edu msaletni@pearl.tufts.edu
- Manager of Computer Resources, Dept. of Civil Engineering
-