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Post by mar on Jan 22, 2009 7:34:39 GMT -5
this seems to be fairly critical from the google searches iv done
fuckin microsoft sites have NO INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
most definitive suggestion iv found is below but its for xp and im running vista
since the "windows host" message has not come up today and this sounds more important can anyone help?
In Windows XP you attempt repair on bad clusters/sectors by doing this.
Go to My Computer Right Click on the drive you want to do this on, and choose Properties Go to the Tools tab. Go to Error Checking and click the Check Now button You have an option there to Attempt recovery of bad sectors.
Note: In most cases bad sectors or clusters are not recovered but marked as bad so the system avoids them in future. Recovery of bad sectors mainly will attempt to move or recover any data kept in the bad sectors, not actually fix the sector. That is usually impossible.
This is as bad clusters/sectors are usually physical damage to the disk surface/s. When you have bad sectors they often grow in number progressively and you should replace the disk or at least backup up a lot if you have them, as the disk will likely fail at some time soon or get an area corrupted you dont want, like a FAT table or data area. You can lose the lot if you arent careful!
Some people get lucky and the bad area doesnt grow and it works for years afterwards, but risking this should not happen if the PC is important or contains critical data.
The most common cause of bad sectors is an aging hard disk, as the Read/Write heads in the disk can dip and hit the disk surface, when normally they do not ever touch the disk/s. This happens because the head arms and mechanisms loosen and/or lose alignment. They wear out. The actual disk surfaces (there are multiple disks in a hard drive) are very durable and would last decades if the heads didnt wear out. But they do.
So do what i describe at the top about scanning and attempting repair on bad sectors, but also start backing up anything you dont want to lose, and do it more than ever, and if you can afford it, buy a new hard disk ASAP.
sounds like my hard disk is about to fall over? it would meebe explain all the probs iv had with hangs and freezes meaning iv had to wipe everything twice doing factory restore recently
helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp!!!
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Post by mar on Jan 22, 2009 7:36:01 GMT -5
sorry full message...............
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
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Post by mar on Jan 22, 2009 8:02:38 GMT -5
i ran chkdsk heres the log:-
Log Name: Application Source: Chkdsk Date: 22/01/2009 12:58:34 Event ID: 26212 Task Category: None Level: Information Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: laptop Description: Chkdsk was executed in read-only mode on a volume snapshot.
Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. 101760 file records processed.
3096 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
134154 index entries processed.
0 unindexed files processed.
101760 security descriptors processed.
Cleaning up 4707 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 4707 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 4707 unused security descriptors. 16198 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 37390296 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
51857407 KB total disk space. 48685200 KB in 81341 files. 42404 KB in 16199 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 232331 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 2897472 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 12964351 total allocation units on disk. 724368 allocation units available on disk.
Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Chkdsk" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">26212</EventID> <Level>4</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-22T12:58:34.000Z" /> <EventRecordID>4734</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>laptop</Computer> <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data>
Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. 101760 file records processed.
3096 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
134154 index entries processed.
0 unindexed files processed.
101760 security descriptors processed.
Cleaning up 4707 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 4707 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9. Cleaning up 4707 unused security descriptors. 16198 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal... 37390296 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
51857407 KB total disk space. 48685200 KB in 81341 files. 42404 KB in 16199 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. 232331 KB in use by the system. 65536 KB occupied by the log file. 2897472 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit. 12964351 total allocation units on disk. 724368 allocation units available on disk. </Data> <Binary>808D01000F7D0100EC1E020000000000314400002C0000000000000000000000</Binary> </EventData> </Event>
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Post by mar on Jan 22, 2009 8:03:44 GMT -5
what does f parameter not specified mean and if i need to how do i do that?
fuckin vista
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Post by $ilvers on Jan 22, 2009 9:15:25 GMT -5
does it restart and then check the disk? im sure if you were using windows at the time then it would cause it to be in read only and not exactly "fix" anything...
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Post by globe on Jan 22, 2009 9:26:33 GMT -5
does it restart and then check the disk? im sure if you were using windows at the time then it would cause it to be in read only and not exactly "fix" anything... yip, thats what "f parameter not specified means" ie. chkdsk /f the /f switch tells chkdsk to fix any errors it finds
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Post by mar on Jan 25, 2009 10:57:22 GMT -5
thanks mate SPOOKILY i actually got a helpful message from windoiws error reporting checking drive c now
now understand how to specify which drives to check and yea you need to schedule the check then restart
just hope it fixes it LOL
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