On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: > On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. > > Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail > gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power > the machine on for the first time in the morning. > > What warning is the disk giving you of early failure?
First it wouldn't mount in during startup. Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. allan
