more of same computer problems

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ubamous3

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my computer has been ok in the last couple ofdays and now it 's acting up again; same symptoms as before and in event manager, i see this message alot

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7
Date: 7/22/2003
Time: 2:24:41 AM
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block


what is Harddisk0\DR0? does that refer to partition C of the primary disk? i did chkdsk but to be honest, i havent been able to find the results log to know whether there's a problem or not (so in my mind, what's the chkdsk for?)

i have a copy of spinrite, but i dont know how to use it; i heard it's much better than chkdsk; anyone have tried it yet?
 
Duracell

Duracell

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Your old problems won't sort them self!
some days you will have no problems and another day a astray IRQ/IO command brings your IDE controller to destroy your complete file system or partition table;
just do the things we all recommended before furthermore using your PC;


\Device\Harddisk0\DR0
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this points to your first IDE controller, first HDD, first partition;


i did chkdsk but to be honest, i havent been able to find the results log to know whether there's a problem or not (so in my mind, what's the chkdsk for?)
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run chkdsk [driveletter]: /f /r
after rebooting the log file is visable in M$ Event Log;

and i don't know "spinrite" but M$ is good and all what you need;


Greetings from
Duracell
 
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bionic

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Try checking your disk for bad clusters. I would suggest that you go to your disk manufacturers website to look for utils to do this.
:)
 
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ubamous3

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bionic said:
Try checking your disk for bad clusters. I would suggest that you go to your disk manufacturers website to look for utils to do this.
:)
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thanks duracell for those short to the point advice; that's exactly what i needed to do.

Bionic, doesnt chkdsk check for bad clusters? that's what i thought chkdsk does.

Anyway, I 'll do the chkdsk c: /f /r right away; didnt know about the /r thingy
 
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ubamous3

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thanks bionic for the link.

Question: can chkdsk ruin your hd if you do it too many times?

the reason is i can't seem to even set my computer to a stable state to type the chkdsk command, it just froze so i had to do a hard reboot and for at least 4 times it wont boot up with various reasons and then twice it automatically did chkdsk b/c i turned the computer off abruptly.

The last time i saw chkdsk doing its thing and i saw messages saying deleting a bunch of .inf of file (some number); that freaked me out so i turned the computer off.

I think i might have a virus on top of whatever problems i have.

Is it possible to boot with a windows 2000 disk and then set it to do a chkdsk on next restart?
 
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scarecrow

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You can run Partition Magic 8 from a floppy tocheck your partition for errors... that said I don't trust this program.
Spinrite5 is good for checking FAT(32) partitions only- but a no-go for NTFS ones.
 
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ubamous3

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scarecrow said:
You can run Partition Magic 8 from a floppy tocheck your partition for errors... that said I don't trust this program.
Spinrite5 is good for checking FAT(32) partitions only- but a no-go for NTFS ones.
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after a few hours of the computer being turned off, i can start the computer again (same thing as last time; it won't do it if u try to reboot right away - will give some kinda error one form or another), and i did chkdsk /f /r and right now i m doing a defrag on that primary partition.

Where can i find the results for that chkdsk operation? is it in event viewer or in some other logs?

it's good to know about spinrite; i didnt know that tidbit about spinrite.
 
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ubamous3

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i tried to search for *.log in the C drive for any files that have recent timestamp for chkdsk results but couldnt find any; in the event viewer\systems\, there's a warning saying


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 52
Date: 7/22/2003
Time: 11:20:57 PM

Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

yikes!!! im backing up files to another disk now, but do i need to backup files from partition 2 of that HD as well?
 
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lotusfang

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not sure, but looks like a s.m.a.r.t msg. and yup, dude if ur hdd is going bye-bye, then it'll be the entire hdd and not only a partition :(

- lf
 
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ubamous3

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serjer said:
try disabling S.M.A.R.T option from bios.

my pal ubamous3 ,did u kill a cat 2 get all those probs?:D:D
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don't get me started :)

well, i guess first i'llhave to read up on what SMART is and how to disable it from bios; i vow to learn to do all this by myself ; i'm sick and tired of waiting for my consultant to handle all my computer problems and still can't figure it out! :(
 
Duracell

Duracell

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ubamous3 said:
i tried to search for *.log in the C drive for any files that have recent timestamp for chkdsk results but couldnt find any; in the event viewer\systems\, there's a warning saying ...
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here i will post one of my (german) Chdsk logs; it was stored under "Event Viewer \ Application Protocols \"

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001

Description:
Dateisystem auf S: wird überprüft.
Der Typ des Dateisystems ist NTFS.
Die Datenträgerbezeichnung lautet Backup.

Eine Datenträgerüberprüfung ist geplant.
Die Datenträgerüberprüfung wird jetzt ausgeführt.
Kleinere Inkonsistenzen auf dem Laufwerk werden aufgeräumt.
6 nicht verwendete Indexeinträge aus Index $SII der Datei 0x9 werden aufgeräumt.
6 nicht verwendete Indexeinträge aus Index $SDH der Datei 0x9 werden aufgeräumt.
6 nicht verwendete Sicherheitsbeschreibungen werden aufgeräumt.
CHKDSK überprüft Dateidaten (Phase 4 von 5)...
Dateidatenüberprüfung beendet.
CHKDSK überprüft freien Speicherplatz (Phase 5 von 5)...
Verifizierung freien Speicherplatzes ist beendet.

10241437 KB Speicherplatz auf dem Datenträger insgesamt
6130108 KB in 119 Dateien
88 KB in 41 Indizes
0 KB in fehlerhaften Sektoren
54181 KB vom System benutzt
53264 KB von der Protokolldatei belegt
4057060 KB auf dem Datenträger verfügbar

4096 Bytes in jeder Zuordnungseinheit
2560359 Zuordnungseinheiten auf dem Datenträger insgesamt
1014265 Zuordnungseinheiten auf dem Datenträger verfügbar
 
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