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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (94167)	8/28/2016 12:10:43 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Saw a youtube video and unfortunately don't have the link, but it was a running open hard-drive and it started having problems within minutes. Without a cleanroom environment, dust particulates in the air trash a drive fast. * * *

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (94167)	8/28/2016 1:14:13 PM
From: B.K.Myers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Run CHKDSK on the drive, should see lots of head movement.

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (94167)	8/28/2016 1:21:53 PM
From: PMS Witch	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110631

Any way to make the heads move. . . What you may want to do is instruct your disk to read a particular LBA, or Logical Block Address. In most cases, one would do this with a program coded to call low-level hardware routines. But if you're simply interested in making the read/write arm move, you can download a program that will do this: Partition Table Editor. thestarman.pcministry.com Although this program is designed to edit Partition Tables, it has the ability to examine any given LBA. To make the read/write arm move, simply select an LBA near one end those available, then select another one near the beginning. This DOS program will run within a Command Line environment on Windows if you open it using Run as Administrator. If you get a warning, click [Ignore] and proceed. Select your Physical device and click OK When the disk data displays, click on Search When the Search box opens, click on GoTo. . . When the GoTo Sector box opens, enter the desired Cylinder number. Of course, just about ANY disk editing program will do the same thing, so if you'd rather use something else, it should work too. Hope this helps. Cheers, PW. P.S. It may be easier to tell your system to Defrag the disk. In many cases, the Defrag operation makes the disk heads really jump around quite a bit -- plus, you can watch what's happening on the screen while it's doing its thing.