Am I missing something here? I see no mention of Scandisk, just chkdsk.your so wrong, open the command prompt and type chkdsk /?
Well that's not what you said when you decided I was so wrong (which I was not). Chkdsk has been improved, but it has been around since the earliest incarnation of DOS.i know it aint called scandisk, mabey the m$ guys were bored when they did it ? or felt like it was time for a name change LOL..
Originally posted by GoNz0
basic physics 1 on 1 aint it greg ? the more you use somthing with moving parts the more it wears out ?, unless of course they invented the friction free drive, then there would be no more heat than room temp would there.
Originally posted by coathanger007
Don't reboot your PC or Shut down and turn on more than necessary. This shortens HD life. And so does defrag.
Originally posted by ToronadoXP
Actually rebooting and shutting down the hard drives isnt such a bad thing. I shut my computer down thruought the day. I have a IBM 120GXP in my other computer and I've had it for a 1 1/2 years. No problems/noises. My friend leaves his pc on all the time and he wonders why is hard drive goes out every few months. He bought the same drive I have and has had about....5 rma's on that specific drive. Some manufactur's sugest only running for a max of 8 hours a day.
Originally posted by coathanger007
Don't reboot your PC or Shut down and turn on more than necessary. This shortens HD life. And so does defrag.
Originally posted by GHayes
[BThen that would leave you in a catch-22 situation. Fragmentation caused extra hard drive seeks - which according to your explaination would reduce the life of the drive. However, if you defragment so that extra hard drive seeks are eliminated, by the very act of defragmenting you are incurring extra seeks and therefore reduce the life of the hard drive. Catch-22.
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- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems
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