i
don't know whether it's normal or not, but it's a little relieving to
realize that 3% means 30%, 4% means 40%, etc. seems like a bug in the
program.
so, i'm at a little over 40% after 18 hours, indicating it should be done by this time tomorrow.
well, the first pass anyways.
of
the first partition. i'm really hoping i don't need to do this for the
second partition. it's roughly 10x the size. yeah. but size isn't the
only factor. in fact, i'll try a reinstall before i do it. i'm kind of
still hoping it's just the boot sector.
it's kind of
got me wondering if i should defrag the fucker from time to time. the
conventional wisdom is not to defrag large drives. but is a 50 gb
partition that big?
there were a lot of errors at the front of the mft, but now i'm going 10-20K sectors between problems.
see,
it never told me it couldn't find a hard drive, or there wasn't an os.
the hard drive test failed, but that's not the same thing as "no hd" or
"no os". it bootstrapped itself into a 100 MB startup utility partition -
on the hd. yet, it couldn't find the boot database thing (whatever it
is now, i should know this, i went over it in vista support training,
but in practice all i ever had to tell anybody was to run the utility,
which i can't get to start because i can't read the partition). that
says dead partition, meaning dead database shit, not dead disc.
i just can't parse randomly dying drives. but i've seen mbrs evaporate.
it
hit a rough spot around when i fell asleep this afternoon and may even
still be in it. its still hard to say if its salvageable, but the damage
report is going to be bad. upwards of 5% of the partition, even, maybe.
it's a big drive. as mentioned, i could halve it and still have too much space. but that indicates imminent mass failure.
