scbs29 wrote:
Thankyou all for your advice.
After my last post, my pc started behaving itself, booting with no
problems for 3 days.
The pc contains 2 hdd, 1 Tb partitioned as PQSERVICE 12 Gb, SYSTEM
RESERVED 100 Mb, C: (o/s partition) 459.45Gb and D: 459.96Gb.
The second hdd is E:, 1863 Gb.
After the 3 days, for 2 days, when I started up I received a message
that the E: drive needed checking for consistency. The check was done
with no errors. After this on both days the pc booted successfully and
I had no problems.
Then when I tried to access the disk, although it was shown in File
Manager, I received that the disk was corrupt or not accessible. Again
this seemed to clear itself the next day and I have had no prolems
with the disk since.
This mornng I again received the message that the hdd needed checking,
again there were no errors and the pc booted successfully.
Can I assume that the hdd is on its way out and needs replacing ?
Could this be the cause of my earlier problem ?
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:03:43 +0100, scbs29
wrote:
Hello all
Literally between switching off at night and restarting next morning I
started having problems booting up. It can take anything up to 5
or 6 tries before I succeed. This has been going on for 4 days.
There have been no changes to software or hardware for at least
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Problem signature 06 1
Problem signature 07 NoRootCause
OS Version 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID 1033
TIA
HDTune - Health tab
http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe
Sample of a disk drive in good health.
https://s33.postimg.cc/mmiax893z/my_...t3500418as.gif
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The second health check is the Benchmark (read-only) curve.
If you see a 50GB wide swath of disk delivering 5-10MB/sec
of bandwidth, that's a "bad spot" and can have lots of
reallocated sectors in it. Unfortunately. the SMART statistics
are best at predicting failure, if errors are spread uniformly
over the platter surface. If the platter is bad in only
one spot, the health indicators can continue to indicate "good".
Here, a user compares two different drives from the same
batch. A sick one on the left. A healthy one on the right.
https://superuser.com/questions/9457...ormance-spikes
There could be other explanations for the one on the left,
but the one on the right tested OK, so that eliminates
a lot of coincidence cases. The downward section at 37% of
the way across the surface, is cause for concern. It's not
dead, but that's a bad spot that could cost a file or two.
The benchmark curve on the left, is how we detect trouble
before it gets to the "SMART warning" stage.
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SMART is not a perfect scheme, but it's what we've got available
to us.
Paul