But why should a third party search program like Ransack have no problem
searching the Backup Disc and do it in a matter of seconds, if there is a
corrupt sector of the drive?

Oreally



"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
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As "Nil" pointed out - have you tried to follow his advice and run CHKDSK
/F from the Command Prompt, on your "D:" drive?

A PC "freezing" in the middle of a disk I/O operation can be symptomatic
of data corruption on the drive.

Quite often hard-disk data corruption can be caused by many different
things and doesn't have to mean that your drive has nearly died.

But the result can be that if Windows cannot read a section of a drive, it
will constantly go over and over the same spot trying to read it, causing
a "lock-up".

The solution, if this is the case, is as simple as running CHKDSK /F D:
from a Command Prompt window (if files on the D: drive are in use, you may
have to press 'Y ' in answer to the question - Do you want chkdsk to run
at next boot? - then, when you next reboot, chkdsk will run then).

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"OREALLY" wrote in message
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Apparently the problem is specific to the Backup 'D' drive. It takes
forever to search and seems to be repeating search of the files and
folders. This does not happen in the main 'C' drive search. It's been
scanning for almost 2 hours looking for wav files. There is about 200GB
worth of info on the 500GB drive.

Still searching.....if I stop the search...computer freezes up.

Ransack finds about 600 wav files on this drive in a few minutes.....so
what's with XP?



"Nil" wrote in message
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On 07 Jan 2010, "OREALLY" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:

Whenever I STOP a search while it is searching the computer
freezes up and I have to go to task manager to end the search. Any
reason or repair for this?

Maybe there is some file system corruption that Search is choking on.
It might be a good idea to run CHKDSK... but better back up your data
and system first, in case it decides to repair your disk into an
unbootable condition.