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11-06-2002, 10:11 PM
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scandisk in ME
Why does it take several hours to run scandisk in ME? I'm talking about four hours.
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11-06-2002, 10:15 PM
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suitcase,
How big is the HDD? Sounds like a long time. Carl |
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11-06-2002, 11:56 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Hi suitcase,
Are you doing a Thorough test or just the Standard test? The Thorough test will do a surface scan of the hard drive platters and, depending on how big your hard drive is, can take hours.  Cricket
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11-07-2002, 11:21 AM
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Did two new drives the other day, one 40gig & one 60gig in total it took from 8am to 4pm. Western Digital
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11-07-2002, 05:47 PM
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Sorry, I should have posted that I guess. The drive is only 20gb
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11-08-2002, 09:40 AM
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That's about right for ME. 5 meg per hour. YMMV
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