Is this the hard drive or another component?
Started by
Phantom Miria
, Jul 09 2007 10:03 PM
#1
Posted 09 July 2007 - 10:03 PM
#2
Posted 10 July 2007 - 03:46 AM
Hi Phantom Miria and welcome to Geeks To Go.
Go into the Event Viewer in the Administrative Tools, located in the Control Panel. Please post the last 4 error messages here.
Go into the Event Viewer in the Administrative Tools, located in the Control Panel. Please post the last 4 error messages here.
#3
Posted 10 July 2007 - 07:27 AM
Wow...umm...theres easily 600 disk errors from 3/4/07 - 3/8/07 then 7/9/07 - 7/10/07. I cant select them all but I can hit the bar 8 times on full screen and it doesnt hit the end. Then theres around 100 cdrom errors. 6 errors in the browsed with 7 warnings. Those are the big ones. Now, the last three errors recorded are Disk Error at 6:18:25 and 6:18:28 then 6:14:22. But, from 6:14:00 (time it was turned on about) to 6:14:22 there was 11 disk errors, and an atapi warning.
The first error,
The Device, \device\harddisk0\D, has a bad block
Well, the last 3 are the same and the same bytes. So...I figure its the hard drive.
Now, the cd rom also has the same thing. Also the same bytes, well the 4 numbers, not what comes after.
The Device, \device\cdrom0\D, has a bad block
The first error,
The Device, \device\harddisk0\D, has a bad block
Well, the last 3 are the same and the same bytes. So...I figure its the hard drive.
Now, the cd rom also has the same thing. Also the same bytes, well the 4 numbers, not what comes after.
The Device, \device\cdrom0\D, has a bad block
#4
Posted 10 July 2007 - 08:29 AM
have you tried running chkdsk with the f ans r switches...chkdsk /f/r
#5
Posted 10 July 2007 - 08:31 AM
I did in March, but I havent today. I forget the results, but if I remember correctly there was alot of errors.
#6
Posted 10 July 2007 - 08:42 AM
Its recovered orphaned files, with the file name *.cur
Its repairing unreadable security descriptors data stream.
It fixed the mirror cope of the security descriptors.
and now its stuck at 0% on stage 4.
OK, it replaced bad clusters in file 292 of name \windows\system32\crtdll.dll.
Its repairing unreadable security descriptors data stream.
It fixed the mirror cope of the security descriptors.
and now its stuck at 0% on stage 4.
OK, it replaced bad clusters in file 292 of name \windows\system32\crtdll.dll.
Edited by Phantom Miria, 10 July 2007 - 08:53 AM.
#7
Posted 10 July 2007 - 11:28 AM
Sounds like it might be a bad hard drive. you should go to the manufacturers website ( for the hard drive not the computer ) and download their utility to check the hard drive.... IF you have the resourses to do so you might want to put his hard drive into another computer before running the diagnostic.... that would eliminate the hard drive controller ( and the cpu/memory) from the equation....
good luck
good luck
#8
Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:17 PM
if you get up and running...make backups of anything you can't live without immediately...That drive sounds like its going to die soon..
#9
Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:19 PM
Well theres nothing on it worth keeping, just windows. But, after I did defrag and scan disk, all the checks and everything, it hasent errored since this morning. So, I shall mess around with it for a couple days and see what happens. He said it takes about 4 days for it to start acting up. Im loading some programs now to the windows he loaded in March, everything is going good now. But...for how long no one knows.
#10
Posted 10 July 2007 - 05:35 PM
just tell him to stay current on backing up any data he can't live without...burn to cd /dvd's
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