October 22nd, 2007, 10:22 AM
Thanks, nihil, I will give that a shot.
October 21st, 2007, 02:40 AM
The Auslogics defrag that Nihil suggested would work like a charm for anyone, BTW.
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October 21st, 2007, 02:26 AM
Quick update.
I've used 3 different 'freeware' tools to scan my current HDD. None of them have detected any problems with the physical condition of the disk. No bad sectors reported either.
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October 13th, 2007, 07:34 AM
Oops, forgot to mention that Scandisk doesn't report any bad sectors, it just skips over 20% of the free space.
That's a bad thing, isn't it?
Crap :(
O
October 13th, 2007, 07:31 AM
Thanks, guys. Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but it's what I expected. It's a Western Digital HDD, BTW. I've never had issues with their drives before, but I guess a bad apple here and there...
October 11th, 2007, 07:43 AM
Here's the situation...
The Vista defrag 'analysis' catches a HDD surface problem and hangs during defrag. My Iolo Professional detects it also and tells me that it can't perform a defrag due to...
