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XP Home crashes
Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in
2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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kevinla wrote:
Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. Replace the defective hardware. Download and run the hard disk drive diagnostics for whatever name-brand hard disk drive you have in the system. See how it fairs. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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kevinla wrote:
Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. Replace the defective hardware. Download and run the hard disk drive diagnostics for whatever name-brand hard disk drive you have in the system. See how it fairs. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Kevin
As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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Kevin
As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:52:02 -0700, kevinla
wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. Almost certainly what you describe is a hardware problem, not a Windows one. Read Shenan's and Gerry's replies, but for the future, read my comments below. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. I hope you mean an *anti*-spyware and an *anti*-virus program. Which ones did you run, and are they kept up to date? Which ones is very important; such programs are *not* equally good by a long shot. CCleaner is a good program as long as you don't use its registry cleaning feature. Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 19:52:02 -0700, kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. Almost certainly what you describe is a hardware problem, not a Windows one. Read Shenan's and Gerry's replies, but for the future, read my comments below. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. I hope you mean an *anti*-spyware and an *anti*-virus program. Which ones did you run, and are they kept up to date? Which ones is very important; such programs are *not* equally good by a long shot. CCleaner is a good program as long as you don't use its registry cleaning feature. Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you. The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may have. Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer
this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer
this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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Kevin
You do not have a BIOS issue! You have a hard drive problem. These details raise issues: Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed Health Status : Failed The comments by Translucency in the next link are of interest: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...9218_14_0.html http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/s...ors-count.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo....T._attributes Have you run chkdsk /f /r? The signs are pointing to a failing hard drive? Most hard drives have some bad sectors. If the number of bad sectors rise you should replace the hard drive. How old is the drive? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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XP Home crashes
Kevin You do not have a BIOS issue! You have a hard drive problem. These details raise issues: Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed Health Status : Failed The comments by Translucency in the next link are of interest: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...9218_14_0.html http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/s...ors-count.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo....T._attributes Have you run chkdsk /f /r? The signs are pointing to a failing hard drive? Most hard drives have some bad sectors. If the number of bad sectors rise you should replace the hard drive. How old is the drive? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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I haven't opened my computer to to see if the cables are loose. It is
somewhat a lot of work. Should I even bother based on the data given? I tried to run chkdsk /f /r and was given this message: "The type of the system file is NTFS Cannot lock current drive Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is iin use by another process . Would you like to schedule this volume to be check the next time the system restarts?" What exactly does CHKDSK do. I read somewhere that trying to fix bad sectors can cause more problems. From the link you gave above, the person says the hard drive can last a few years with the problems I am having. I expect to get a new computer in 2012 when Windows 8 comes out. What are the chances of my hard drive lasting that long? "Gerry" wrote: Kevin You do not have a BIOS issue! You have a hard drive problem. These details raise issues: Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed Health Status : Failed The comments by Translucency in the next link are of interest: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...9218_14_0.html http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/s...ors-count.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo....T._attributes Have you run chkdsk /f /r? The signs are pointing to a failing hard drive? Most hard drives have some bad sectors. If the number of bad sectors rise you should replace the hard drive. How old is the drive? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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I haven't opened my computer to to see if the cables are loose. It is
somewhat a lot of work. Should I even bother based on the data given? I tried to run chkdsk /f /r and was given this message: "The type of the system file is NTFS Cannot lock current drive Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is iin use by another process . Would you like to schedule this volume to be check the next time the system restarts?" What exactly does CHKDSK do. I read somewhere that trying to fix bad sectors can cause more problems. From the link you gave above, the person says the hard drive can last a few years with the problems I am having. I expect to get a new computer in 2012 when Windows 8 comes out. What are the chances of my hard drive lasting that long? "Gerry" wrote: Kevin You do not have a BIOS issue! You have a hard drive problem. These details raise issues: Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed Health Status : Failed The comments by Translucency in the next link are of interest: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...9218_14_0.html http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/s...ors-count.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo....T._attributes Have you run chkdsk /f /r? The signs are pointing to a failing hard drive? Most hard drives have some bad sectors. If the number of bad sectors rise you should replace the hard drive. How old is the drive? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Here are the HD Tune results. I noticed something when I booted the computer this time. The CD drive began spinning immediately. It did not do this before the problem occured. Does this mean I have BIOS issue? HD Tune results HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Error Scan Scanned data : 38146 MB Damaged Blocks : 0.1 % Elapsed Time : 24:23 HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Information Firmware version : DAH017K0 Serial number : D22EF5LE Capacity : 37.3 GB (~40.0 GB) Buffer size : 2048 KB Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6 Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) S.M.A.R.T : yes 48-bit Address : no Read Look-Ahead : yes Write Cache : yes Host Protected Area : yes Device Configuration Overlay : yes Automatic Acoustic Management: yes Power Management : yes Advanced Power Management : yes Power-up in Standby : no Security Mode : yes Firmware Upgradable : yes Partition : 1 Drive letter : C:\ Label : IBM_PRELOAD Capacity : 37103 MB Usage : 49.05% Type : NTFS Bootable : Yes Partition : 2 Drive letter : Label : Capacity : 1058 MB Usage : 0.00% Type : FAT32 Hidden Bootable : No HD Tune: Maxtor 4D040H2 Health ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status (03) Spin Up Time 234 234 63 6272 Ok (04) Start/Stop Count 251 251 0 5191 Ok (05) Reallocated Sector Count 1 1 63 636 Failed (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0 Ok (07) Seek Error Rate 253 251 0 0 Ok (08) Seek Time Performance 248 232 187 35170 Ok (09) Power On Hours Count 247 247 0 4086 Ok (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0 Ok (0C) Power Cycle Count 244 244 0 3824 Ok (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C2) Temperature 253 253 0 0 Ok (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 1101 Ok (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0 Ok (C5) Current Pending Sector 248 238 0 5 Ok (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0 Ok (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 199 199 0 0 Ok (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 237 0 270 Ok (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 0 Ok (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0 Ok (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0 Ok (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0 Ok (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0 Ok (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0 Ok (D1) Offline Seek Performance 163 163 0 0 Ok (63) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (64) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok (65) (unknown attribute) 253 253 0 0 Ok Power On Time : 4086 Health Status : Failed "Gerry" wrote: Kevin As Shenan suggests but also check cable and connections from drive to motherboard. Does the BIOS always recognise the hard drive? Please note you can get situations where one minute it does and the next time it does not. What is the make and model of the hard drive? The connectors on SATA cables can cause intermittent problems and replacing a cable is much cheaper than replacing a hard drive Another suggestion.Run a full surface scan with HD Tune to check for bad sectors on the hard drive. HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any problems. Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00. http://www.hdtune.com/ Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full surface scan with HD Tune. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kevinla wrote: Specifications: Pentium 4 , 1 GB RAM, XP Home. The computer was bought in 2003. I ran a spyware program, CC Cleaner, and virus program. All clean. My computer will crash and I get a black screeen with this message repeating. Inel Boot Agent Version 4.0.19 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM 1962: No Operating system found Press F1 to repeat boot sequence The first time the problem occured was when I ran the disk defragmenter. The other two times it was random. One time I just stepped away, and I came back and it happened. I did a google search and someone posted the same problem, but it is not clear what I should do. http://www.techtalkz.com/hardware/10...p-pxe-e61.html Then my computer started receving this message every time I boot. "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you continue. To skip disk checking, press any key within 7 seconds. The disk check will run. When it gets to 100%, it doesn't do anything. The hard drive light continues to remain on. I then turn off the computer, and skip the disk check. Windows seems to load OK. |
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kevinla wrote:
I haven't opened my computer to to see if the cables are loose. It is somewhat a lot of work. Should I even bother based on the data given? I tried to run chkdsk /f /r and was given this message: "The type of the system file is NTFS Cannot lock current drive Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is iin use by another process . Would you like to schedule this volume to be check the next time the system restarts?" What exactly does CHKDSK do. I read somewhere that trying to fix bad sectors can cause more problems. From the link you gave above, the person says the hard drive can last a few years with the problems I am having. I expect to get a new computer in 2012 when Windows 8 comes out. What are the chances of my hard drive lasting that long? Backup your stuff and spend the $100 or less to buy a new and likely much larger hard disk drive. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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kevinla wrote:
I haven't opened my computer to to see if the cables are loose. It is somewhat a lot of work. Should I even bother based on the data given? I tried to run chkdsk /f /r and was given this message: "The type of the system file is NTFS Cannot lock current drive Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is iin use by another process . Would you like to schedule this volume to be check the next time the system restarts?" What exactly does CHKDSK do. I read somewhere that trying to fix bad sectors can cause more problems. From the link you gave above, the person says the hard drive can last a few years with the problems I am having. I expect to get a new computer in 2012 when Windows 8 comes out. What are the chances of my hard drive lasting that long? Backup your stuff and spend the $100 or less to buy a new and likely much larger hard disk drive. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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