So, I received an old laptop for my birthday. And by old I mean old. It has a Pentium II processor and 64 mb of RAM.
I had forgotten how slow these hard drives were.
I ran Norton Disk Doctor on it. The surface test, on a 9 gig hard disk, lasted 11 hours.
Let's at least hope it corrected all the errors, since the thing had three rows of B's (Bad clusters).