Power Surges & hard Drive Failures
Submitted by Tom on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 10:49.
We’ve been seeing an increase in hard drive failures lately, and many are because of the storms that we’ve been having lately. Power surges and brown-outs are hard on hard drives.
How do you know if your hard drive is failing? Go to Start, Control Panel (or Settings -> Control Panel), Administrator Tools, Event Event Viewer. Look under System for events such as “bad block” or read/write failures. These are indications that your hard drive is failing, and you should waste no time in 1) backing up your data; and 2) replacing the hard drive.
