Were they right?! (the next chapter in the laptop saga)

[forgotten_aria]

So I haven't had a hard drive error since I reinstalled linux and windows. Does that mean they were right? There is a physicall thing I did, where I had the HD out a few times, so I could have tightened a loose connector in that process, but it didn't seem loose. I don't remember when the problems started to happen, but I can't immagine an intermittent, grub happy, boot sector virus.

I'm so confused.

Comments

[feylike.livejournal.com]

did you format the HD? doing so may have forced some bad blocks to be remapped. also, just writing to bad blocks can cause them to be remapped.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I ran the "sony, blow everything away and put windows on or we won't touch it" "recovery" disks. They likely reformatted.