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Old October 30th 17, 01:07 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Neil
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On 10/28/2017 9:10 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote
| I'm referring to something that happened to me over two years ago, so I
| think it's best for you to do a search

I did do a search, of course. If I'd turned up anything
relevant I wouldn't be asking.
Saying that Win8 ruins
hard disks is a dramatic statement. There's no reason
to either doubt or believe what you say on only your
say-so. Naturally I went looking. I've been unable to
find even one report of a fishy early disk death.


There is a *lot* of information on-line about the issues related to
SMART drive failures. I don't know why you aren't finding any that help
you to understand some of the possible reasons for your experience.

But, let me be clear about a few things:
These problems are not generalized to the point where one could say
something like "...Win8 ruins discs...", and I did not state anything
remotely like that. There are many functional variables that were
introduced with the Win8 OS, and those familiar with it understand this
such that I doubt they would arrive at your conclusion.

In my particular case, which resulted in some similarities with your
experience, I was able to track the problem to Win8.1 disregarding
CHKDSK /f and continuing to write into the same bad sectors until the
boot sector was trashed. There are many possible reasons for that, so IT
DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE IS DUE TO THE SAME ISSUE, which is
why I didn't suggest that it was at any point.

If what
you say is true I'd expect to see all sorts of complaints
and articles about the disaster of Win8.

If you even remotely understood what I wrote, you would know that I do
not consider Win8 to be a disaster. Finding articles that feeds your
misconceptions is not my responsibility.

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best regards,

Neil
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