A couple of weeks ago I tried to install Ubuntu on an oldish machine with an oldish hard drive and ran into all sorts of errors, both with Dapper Drake and Breezy Badger, whereas Dapper runs fine on my main desktop. When I rebooted with the live CD and ran an fsck, there were zillions of errors on the root partition, leading me to believe that perhaps the hard drive has a number of bad sectors which is causing corruption.
Is there a tool that can run off a bootable CD, floppy, etc. that can scan the disk for bad sectors and mark them unusable?
2006-07-21 12:58:59 · 9 answers · asked by msabramo 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
SpinRite.
2006-07-21 13:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by TruthIsRelative 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well there is a broad range of anti virus programs out there. Most contain virus' them self. Most of the free ones you download from websites only tell you, you have viruses. If you buy a 1,000$ computer like most people you want it to last right? Surfing the web without the proper Trojan and spy ware weapons will literally waste the investment a computer is. If you can afford a computer you ought to afford a 30, or 40$ anti virus program that actually works. Avast and others aren't too reliable. Webroot and Norton are trusted by more. Most stay away from Norton from what they hear. But no matter what people say its good. Webroot Spy Sweeper is the best of the best available to the public. Really they both work hand in hand so you ought to buy them both. If you dont have 40$ to scrape up then the computer comes with a wizard to do it. Its called Disk cleanup It will show you all the wasted space on your hard disk. For deleting programs ise add or remove programs
2006-07-21 13:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by Brodey 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whoever made the disk will make/have a diagnotics utility and can do a surface scan.
2006-07-21 13:02:08 · answer #3 · answered by TheSkeptic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if its a western digital drive, there is a cure, go to there web site and they have a tool that will re-do your drive and try to make it better. As long as its not to far gone.
2006-07-21 13:02:32 · answer #4 · answered by Jack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows scan tool found in all start....all programs..accessories....
system tools.
2006-07-21 13:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by doodad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try scandisk from windows.you might reformat the drive first though.
2006-07-21 13:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure... Scandisk and CHKDSK from Microsoft will do it just fine.
2006-07-21 13:01:36 · answer #7 · answered by Village Idiot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spin rite
2006-07-21 13:04:49 · answer #8 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not worth it... buy a new thingy
2006-07-21 13:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by sickllama7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋