In comp.os.linux.hardware Whoever wrote:
On Sun, 21 May 2006, wrote:
About over an hour ago, I was watching a long video (FLV file; not fullscreen) for about 30 minutes in GMPlayer on
my Linux/Debian box (Linux foobar 2.6.14-2-k7 #1 Wed Dec 28 19:14:46 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux) while my
gaming/Windows box was doing SpinRite stuff (so far no errors, but I will resume overnight since it has 8 hours to
I suggest you read this:
http://www.grcsucks.com/spinrite.htm
and then think about how productive those hours spent doing "Spinrite
stuff" are.
Interesting. Then, what do you suggest using? I already tried chkdsk.exe, Norton Disk Doctor, and SeaTools
Desktop so far. Nothing unusual. I had to stop SpinRite since it said it would be about 8 hours, on my 95 GB
partition/drive so I decided to save it for tonight.
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