My notebook hard disk seemed a bit slow, but i figured that was due to the accumulated gunk and software residue left on it. Then Windows displayed a few error messages saying the drive was failing and to back up files.
Luckily, I am traveling with a clone of the drive, just in case of this very situation, something I highly recommend you do if you are travelling for long periods of time in parts of the world where computer parts are exorbitant.
TIP: Before you leave clone your entire drive with Acronis.
I copied the few recent files and emails to a USB key and then ran disk check on the drive to see if that would fix it. No errors found, which made me wonder how Windows determines that a drive is failing.... Read-write speed? Something else? Anyway, after a while it got so slow I just pulled the drive out of the notebook and stuck the cloned drive in and I am back.
I think my old Thinkpad X60 is reaching the point of retirement. Perhaps I will pick up the latest version of it when I get back to Canada, the Thinkpad X1 Ultrabook Laptop Computer | ThinkPad X Series | X1 | Lenovo | (CA)
All this salt air running through the fan for the last 6 years - I bet my current notebook is rusty inside.
Luckily, I am traveling with a clone of the drive, just in case of this very situation, something I highly recommend you do if you are travelling for long periods of time in parts of the world where computer parts are exorbitant.
TIP: Before you leave clone your entire drive with Acronis.
I copied the few recent files and emails to a USB key and then ran disk check on the drive to see if that would fix it. No errors found, which made me wonder how Windows determines that a drive is failing.... Read-write speed? Something else? Anyway, after a while it got so slow I just pulled the drive out of the notebook and stuck the cloned drive in and I am back.
I think my old Thinkpad X60 is reaching the point of retirement. Perhaps I will pick up the latest version of it when I get back to Canada, the Thinkpad X1 Ultrabook Laptop Computer | ThinkPad X Series | X1 | Lenovo | (CA)
All this salt air running through the fan for the last 6 years - I bet my current notebook is rusty inside.