Mistamist
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Registered: 16th Jul 03
Location: Gillingham, Kent
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Recently i have noticed that my computer is hanging when running programs, i have tried to error check the hard drive and it gets to phase 2 and then comes up with a redundancy error or something like that.
what is a good program to check for errors on your hard drive other than the one in windows.
cheers
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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The one in windows is usually pretty good. I'd say your drive was showing signs of failing and I'd back up a much as you can now and get a program called Norton Ghost and take an image of the whole drive.
How old is the drive you have?. If it's 4-5 years then I'd seriously consider getting a new one soon.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Backup. Now.
Wouldnt use Norton Shost on a failing harddrive, i'd just do a fresh install of windows 
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_Allan_
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Why not use Ghost?, I've had no probs backing up a difficult drive on boot up with ghost. Trying to put a fresh copy of windows on will only chance more corruption if the disk is having access difficulties. I'm only going by personal experience and not within a work environment. My own machines have been ok this way. Last time I had a drive on it's way out, windows would not install correctly etc... I didn't want to risk losing the remaining data.
[Edited on 20-05-2008 by _Allan_]
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pow
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Fresh install of windows on a new HDD I meant 
Ghosting takes across EVERYTHING, including the dodgy bytes that the hard disk has mutated
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_Allan_
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that make more sense.
Yeah I only suggested Ghost to get a full copy of of the raw files and to use it on a fresh disk as a secondary drive to copy from not to use as a primary or mirror'd drive again. Pick what you want off and then reformat. Would require another spare drive as well as a new one.
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