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S.M.A.R.T. is so stupid	by ripley8	2007-08-13 14:50:05
This morning between breakfast and leaving to work I wanted to check my mail as I usually do. I moved the mouse - screen stays blank. I wonder what happened and see the light being off. On pressing shift the screensaver turns off (screen turns on). I move the pointer using the trackpad towards the taskbar icon of the window where I preview my mail. BANG blue screen! I really wonder what happened. Message is kernel paging fault. Lo and behold, the hard drive is eerily quiet. Having no other choice to proceed I turn the machine off and on again. Hard drive comes up the way it should, boot selector is displayed. Confirming the boot of W2K after a few moments I get a really evil message: system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted! Reboot into FreeBSD (single user mode, I'm already running out of time). When I try to mount the FAT partition it gets rejecting with a disk read error. Currently I'm running ddrescue from an Insert CD with another box as NFS server. From the noises the bad spots make I can now confirm that what I perceived as a horribly fragmented directory with the virus scanner running in circles in reality had been disk read errors all along. This has been going on for at least two years. All the time whenever I ran Aida32 and looked on the S.M.A.R.T. screen there were no errors or warnings at all. Go figure.
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This is not good	by ripley8	2007-08-13 15:00:05
vows to finaly make a backup...... tomorrow	by aix tom	2007-08-13 15:22:34

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