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The other day I was working on a server setup in VMWare. It was a bit of a torture test, different configs, many reboots, software torn in and out as I worked on scripts for a Linux live CD. So, when my virtual machine started to behave strangely, I didn't really blame it.
Then I had file corruption. A little extreme, but ok. What the hell, I'll format the partition. Command line FAT32 format got to 1% and got stuck. Linux mkfs.vfat said it did it, but I didn't trust it and told it to check sectors. After over twelve hours of checking, I gave up. No good.
So, in Windows XP Pro mega GUI, I give up and tell it to just format the thing. Yeah, sure, NTFS; hurt me. Sometime in the middle of the night, Windows committed seppuku and rebooted.
The event log gave me this priceless error:
Um, ack! Time to look for a new HD. The now passe IDE style, not the SATA type that all the cool kids have these days. It's a dinky 2.4GHz think. The urge to upgrade is strong. We shall see.
Then I had file corruption. A little extreme, but ok. What the hell, I'll format the partition. Command line FAT32 format got to 1% and got stuck. Linux mkfs.vfat said it did it, but I didn't trust it and told it to check sectors. After over twelve hours of checking, I gave up. No good.
So, in Windows XP Pro mega GUI, I give up and tell it to just format the thing. Yeah, sure, NTFS; hurt me. Sometime in the middle of the night, Windows committed seppuku and rebooted.
The event log gave me this priceless error:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.
Um, ack! Time to look for a new HD. The now passe IDE style, not the SATA type that all the cool kids have these days. It's a dinky 2.4GHz think. The urge to upgrade is strong. We shall see.
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