Gerry
Sun Jun 01 09:51:15 PDT 2008
Jay
What are your ant-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? What firewall?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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jaypeecee wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> I tried HD Tune and the Error Scan produced a clean bill of health -
> I did the full scan. Clicking on the 'Health' tab shows the health
> status to be OK.
>
> JPC
>
>
> "Gerry" wrote:
>
>> Jay
>>
>> Try 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
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> jaypeecee wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I have run chkdsk several times over the last 24 hours using no
>>> switch and /f and /r switches. Each time, errors are found, which
>>> are then corrected by using the appropriate switch. All the errors
>>> I have seen are index-related. I don't appear to have any bad
>>> sectors. An error that has cropped up on more than one occasion is
>>> "Deleting an index entry from index $0 of file 25". On the same
>>> run, I got "Detected minor inconsistencies on the drive. This is
>>> not a corruption". To my surprise, these errors were flagged up
>>> when doing a read-only chkdsk. If it's read-only, why does it
>>> proceed to delete index entries?
>>>
>>> The first time I ran chkdsk and saw errors, I thought it was a
>>> one-off. But, having corrected the errors and run chkdsk again in
>>> read-only mode, again there were errors. I cannot run chkdsk without
>>> some errors coming to light.
>>>
>>> Could anyone explain why this is happening? FYI, I'm running Win XP
>>> Pro SP3.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> JPC