Comments | glebs282: This does not look good for Homest-glebs.

glebs282

This does not look good for Homest-glebs.

Oct 31, 2008 04:44

So today I got to have a big ol computer scare. Big Red (my Sony Vaio lappy) started making odd hard drive grinding noises yesterday and freezing up for a few seconds at a time, so I powered it down for the night and let it cool off. Today, the grinding sounds and freezings came back. After one particularly bad freeze-up and hard restart, my system ( Read more... )

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baka_neko314 October 31 2008, 18:26:17 UTC

If you're getting grinding sounds when it starts up, your harddrive is dying. You may have bought it some time, but take it to the doctor. <3

glebs282 November 1 2008, 10:03:41 UTC

I deleted the last major thing I downloaded and today has been good so far for the machine. No grinding or nothin.

baka_neko314 November 1 2008, 18:36:12 UTC

I was just mirroring what Jared told me to tell you.

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glebs282 November 2 2008, 04:45:27 UTC

a) portable hard drive is item #1 on the xmas list.
2) I was only able to successfully do the fsck -from- the live CD and it worked fine, with the exception of a few bad blocks it couldn't read. I'd link you to similar problems on the ubuntu forums, but they seem to be down. Anyways, Everything's back to normal, or at least seems so. The Hard drive has quieted down and I still have all my shit (and backed up now too) No explosions or anything.