[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Replies: Are these symptoms of impending hard disk death?

ej@gsbmva.uchicago.edu (Eric Jacquier) (05/27/90)

Thanks for all the replies to my hard disk problem by mail and on the net. 
To summarize the replies I got by mail, it seems that I should scrutinize
my hard disk with a utility. I got recommendations for SPINRITE 2.
One person said that this looked like possible symptoms of impending
death. 
Another possibility was that the files being read (for which no sector was
found) were files that were written last a long time ago. In that case, it
was recommended to refresh them as the information might have been 
lost. That is not the case for me, the files are actually rewritten quite
often.
Thanks
Eric