I've had two laptops die in the past month, and I'm wondering if it was google desktop's fault...
Cliff notes:
-google desktop on two similar laptops
-computers experience hard drive problems after about 3 months
The first computer was my work laptop about a month ago. It had google desktop on it for about 3 months. The first sign of trouble was the increasingly slow access times, and the occasional freeze up, and then it started to 'lose' files, ie the file disappeared after a reboot. I tried uninstalling google desktop, but I kept getting an error that told me I couldn't. I also could not backup the hard drive. At one point I removed the hard drive, installed it into an enclosure, and hooked it up to my personal machine at home. Gave me read errors after about 800 mbs or so of copying. I also started getting 'semaphore failure' messages. I finally just reformatted the hard drive, and tested the heck out of it. As far as I could tell the reformat fixed everything. I was also layed off, so I will never know long term if it was fixed.
The second computer was my fiance's laptop. It too has had google desktop on for about 3 months, and right now I'm getting SMART failure errors, specifically the 'reallocated sector count' error. All other smart attributes are good. About a week ago the hard drive started thrashing after 1 hr 30 minutes of use, and it took the computer about 20 minutes to sort itself out. Usually after the 20 minutes of thrashing, an error with either mcaffee or google desktop would appear, as well as my firewall informing me that both wanted to access the web. I took both the virus scanner & google desktop off, and the machine runs alot faster, and no more thrashing, but still there are SMART errors, so HP is sending me a new HDD (i love my warranty).
Both computers have similar specs (p-m 1.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, 40 gb hard drive, one dell, and one HP), and both had been used for development work. My work laptop for work, and my fiance's laptop was my laptop when I was finishing my degree up last year. They also both had enterprise version virus scanners installed. We both have usb thumb drives which have been plugged into both machines, and my 10 gb drive has also been plugged into both machines. We also both use hibernate.
So what I'm wondering:
-do laptop power saving modes mess with google desktop?
-does google desktop not like hibernate?
-does google desktop not like external hard drives/thumb drives?
-why did the thrashing stop after google desktop was removed?
Cliff notes:
-google desktop on two similar laptops
-computers experience hard drive problems after about 3 months
The first computer was my work laptop about a month ago. It had google desktop on it for about 3 months. The first sign of trouble was the increasingly slow access times, and the occasional freeze up, and then it started to 'lose' files, ie the file disappeared after a reboot. I tried uninstalling google desktop, but I kept getting an error that told me I couldn't. I also could not backup the hard drive. At one point I removed the hard drive, installed it into an enclosure, and hooked it up to my personal machine at home. Gave me read errors after about 800 mbs or so of copying. I also started getting 'semaphore failure' messages. I finally just reformatted the hard drive, and tested the heck out of it. As far as I could tell the reformat fixed everything. I was also layed off, so I will never know long term if it was fixed.
The second computer was my fiance's laptop. It too has had google desktop on for about 3 months, and right now I'm getting SMART failure errors, specifically the 'reallocated sector count' error. All other smart attributes are good. About a week ago the hard drive started thrashing after 1 hr 30 minutes of use, and it took the computer about 20 minutes to sort itself out. Usually after the 20 minutes of thrashing, an error with either mcaffee or google desktop would appear, as well as my firewall informing me that both wanted to access the web. I took both the virus scanner & google desktop off, and the machine runs alot faster, and no more thrashing, but still there are SMART errors, so HP is sending me a new HDD (i love my warranty).
Both computers have similar specs (p-m 1.4 ghz, 1 gb ram, 40 gb hard drive, one dell, and one HP), and both had been used for development work. My work laptop for work, and my fiance's laptop was my laptop when I was finishing my degree up last year. They also both had enterprise version virus scanners installed. We both have usb thumb drives which have been plugged into both machines, and my 10 gb drive has also been plugged into both machines. We also both use hibernate.
So what I'm wondering:
-do laptop power saving modes mess with google desktop?
-does google desktop not like hibernate?
-does google desktop not like external hard drives/thumb drives?
-why did the thrashing stop after google desktop was removed?
