On 11/01/2021 22:51, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 11/01/2021 22:10, Adam Bower wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 05:01:55PM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Sprog's Windows laptop is occasionally saying "I have to reboot - disk error"
I'd be running some smart monitoring tools on the disk and/or checking the connections, might be an early sign of imminent hardware failure?
Is that the actual error message or have you paraphrased it?
Moot at the moment, as I turned it on to look at the event log and try and find the error, & it went into a checkdisk that's been running for hours and has 3 hours ETA.
In my experience that means terminal disk error. :-( (well bad sectors it's trying to read and fix, but, basically replace the disk).
However, I was given a screenshot -
"Security & Maintenance
Restart to repair drive errors
Click to restart your PC"
That's it. :-(
So.....
After hours of checkdisk, it rebooted perfectly OK. I suspect bad sectors, or disk failure, but once it was on it was OK - so probably was only hitting the bad bit of the disk occasionally.
So...
I bought a SSD update kit. We cloned the disk using the supplied cloning S/W, swapped in the new disk. BINGO!
Works!
But, somehow, in the process the battery died. So have a new battery on order. Really not sure how we managed to kill the internal battery though.
Also discovered that Windows update had stuck and had to download the separate Windows Updater tool.
Getting seriously off-topic now - sorry.
May have to get myself an SSD for my Linux laptop - it's fast, but worryingly quiet!
Steve