I have been trying to downgrade (upgrade ???) my laptop hp pavillion 9615tx from vista to XP ever since I bought it, with no help from HP whatso ever, so finally gave Hardy Heron a go. What a difference. Everything worked !!! and it is so responsive. I now OWN my laptop for the first time, it does what i ask it to do. Video play back is supreme ... but I have to say on rare occasions it kinda stalls, but i am willing to put up with this minor hicup. I am extremely impressed nonetheless. It is network related tasks, if I browse the network for example, sometimes it justs sits there, other times it is lightning fast. XP drivers seemed non-existant but ubuntu had no problems. WOW, what a difference. I had tried previous versions/distros and had problems connecting to the network etc and that made it difficult to fix anything else. Someone has been very busy down at ubuntu HQ, and I am very thankful. Justin , t On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Adam Field wrote: > Use smartmontools: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools > > Hard drives have a self diagnostic capability called SMART. Theworld record memorised pi > program "smartctl" will let you run diagnostics on the drive. >world record memorised piEven the remote > For file systems you need to use fsck. But the file system cannot be > mounted read/write if you want to verify it. You can boot into single > user mode to check out your filesystem(s). > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Sean Breheny wrote: >> One more question: I have a slight suspicion that the problem may be a >> malfunctioning hard drive. How do I run diagnostics on the hard drive >> and file system in Ubuntu? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sean > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist