I have what sounds like a berring going bad.

[Alan Dacey]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 18:49:39 Willy Hamra wrote:
>> sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda
> Willie,
> My 200gb drive seems OK, however the 80gb has a long list of Old Age and 
> prefail warnings.  I would like to not lose the data on the drive and don't 
> have a place to put it right now, Should I disconnect the drive until I can 
> solve the storage problem?
> 
. . .
I'm not sure if you have either IDE or sataII hard drives there now, but have 
you considered getting a new drive?  There are many that should be big enough 
(250 to 500GB) in the $50-$75 price range, many for about sixty.  The place I 
use, when not on ebay, has a pretty good return policy too.  The last thing I 
got was a 640GB Samsung for less than $75, including shipping.  It took four 
days from when I ordered it to when I formatted it.  Right now it is chopped up 
with ext4, etx3 & NTFS partitions on it and running fine.
I personally have never had a problem with anything I bought from them and only 
one of my friends did.  The online store replaced the part with no hassles. 
Definitely not like what you are going through with ASUS.  It won't hurt to look.

IDE drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014+4026+1035907789&Configurator=&Subcategory=14&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

SATA2 drives:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014+4026+1035915133&Configurator=&Subcategory=14&description=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

Alan

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