Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Error checking a hard drive

This morning I did a backup, but one of my backup drives wasn't working properly (this particular drive been really slow for quite a while now). So I downloaded the Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics program for Windows, and started running an extended test on the drive.

In the evening the test was still going, and said it had about 40 hours left to go, so I raised a support ticket through Western Digital's website to check if this was normal. I really don't want to go through two nights of having my PC on overnight unless absolutely necessary. (The PC is in my bedroom and I can't get much sleep when it's on).

For the rest of the day I sorted / processed a few photos and went on the internet a bit.

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