Big ups for DiskWarrior coming out to play-ee-yea and a weird battery fix

[Trouble]

I love Drive Genius mainly for DrivePulse. http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/?p=170 DrivePulse continually runs in the background and will check volume integrity, SMART status, fragmentation, validity of preference files, and physically test the hard drive surface areas. I think it is great and if there is any problem, it will let me know.

Last week, I got a notice that one of my RAID volumes failed the consistency check. I ran repair from Disk Utility on it and after 30 minutes or so, DU reported that the volume couldn't be fixed, I needed to copy everything from it, reformat, and copy everything back. Ugh. Reran the test and got the same result. What if I fired up DW and tried that? DW rebuilt the directory and everything tested fine after that. Big Ups.

I use my PC laptop as a desktop replacement. I'd been leaving the battery out of it to help save the battery capacity. I plugged the battery back in, but it wouldn't change past 40%. Even after a few weeks, it was still at 40%. On a hunch, I unplugged the laptop and let the laptop run until the battery died. After that, the battery charged up to 100% rapidly. I guess that the battery being "stuck" at a certain charge level confused it and it wouldn't allow charging. That is the best way I can explain it.

[JoeH]

Or the battery recalibrated and what was 40% capacity is now being reported as 100%. That would be consistent with the rapid recharge, and with what I have seen with "aged" batteries on PC laptops at work.

[Trouble]

JoeH wrote:
Or the battery recalibrated and what was 40% capacity is now being reported as 100%. That would be consistent with the rapid recharge, and with what I have seen with "aged" batteries on PC laptops at work.

When I said "rapidly", I wasn't really watching the battery meter but your explanation makes sense.

[deckeda]

The battery thing matches what the weak battery my ASUS has. It'll only run for about 10 minutes. In the BIOS there's some kind of pseudo recondition feature but---get this---all it does is run the PC until the battery dies.

Windows 7 will report battery as 100% charged but also knows there's something amiss with it's capacity and suggest it gets replaced.

[hal]

does 'big ups' = praise?

[RAMd®d]

all it does is run the PC until the battery dies.

A holdover from NiCad days.