F-this! Reformatting my HD in an hour or two and starting new. Advice?

Bad sectors on a disk usually just indicate a hard drive that is physically failing. Reloading the OS will not fix that. Buy a new hard drive and reload.

Also I would reload from base and never clone. Because you clone malware and viruses too. I wipe my system down to zero once a year or more for that reason alone.

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Originally Posted by nynco

Bad sectors on a disk usually just indicate a hard drive that is physically failing. Reloading the OS will not fix that. Buy a new hard drive and reload.

Also I would reload from base and never clone. Because you clone malware and viruses too. I wipe my system down to zero once a year or more for that reason alone.

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Had you read the thread, you would see the OP did buy a new hard drive after receiving some solid advice.

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Originally Posted by brutal

Had you read the thread, you would see the OP did buy a new hard drive after receiving some solid advice.

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I read his opening post and gave my opinion and reconfirmed his.

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Originally Posted by nynco

Bad sectors on a disk usually just indicate a hard drive that is physically failing. Reloading the OS will not fix that. Buy a new hard drive and reload.

Also I would reload from base and never clone. Because you clone malware and viruses too. I wipe my system down to zero once a year or more for that reason alone.

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I use a virtual machine, kept updated, for that. I love seeing "your machine is infected, click here" in slax.

Damn you use Slax... thats not an easy OS, you must be into some more complex stuff.

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Buy a new hard drive and reload.

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My apologies, it looked like a hit and run post since that had already been covered.