Pegasus
Wed Oct 01 09:48:03 PDT 2008
The "Bad block" message may have been a glitch or your disk might have a
marginal sector. However, if the manufacturer's testing tool gave it a clean
bill of health then I tend to favour the glitch theory.
You should be right with your 160 GB disk, provided that you use SP2 or
higher.
"Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37C20070-43EF-48BD-ADB9-D562DE40E76F@microsoft.com...
>I ran chkdsk c: /r , as suggested.
>
> Event Type: Information
> Event Source: Winlogon
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 1001
> Date: 9/29/2008
> Time: 3:16:07 PM
> User: N/A
> Description:
> Checking file system on C:
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
>
> A disk check has been scheduled.
> Windows will now check the disk.
> Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
> Cleaning up 25 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
> Cleaning up 25 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
> Cleaning up 25 unused security descriptors.
> CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
> Usn Journal verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
> File data verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
> Free space verification is complete.
>
> 80027765 KB total disk space.
> 5609320 KB in 38332 files.
> 14476 KB in 4916 indexes.
> 0 KB in bad sectors.
> 117301 KB in use by the system.
> 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> 74286668 KB available on disk.
>
> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> 20006941 total allocation units on disk.
> 18571667 allocation units available on disk.
>
> Internal Info:
> d0 b6 00 00 fb a8 00 00 47 ea 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........G.......
> 90 06 00 00 02 00 00 00 cd 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> 08 dc 60 01 00 00 00 00 c8 4f 44 21 00 00 00 00 ..`......OD!....
> 90 4e 5a 03 00 00 00 00 a2 51 40 16 01 00 00 00 .NZ......Q@.....
> 82 63 e4 63 04 00 00 00 a8 3a 89 a7 05 00 00 00 .c.c.....:......
> 99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 90 38 07 00 bc 95 00 00 ..6......8......
> 00 00 00 00 00 a0 5d 56 01 00 00 00 34 13 00 00 ......]V....4...
>
> Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your computer
> restarts.
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
> Was this to repair 'bad block'?
>
> I aslo ran Sea Tools, my HD is MAXTOR. (I dIdn't know Maxtor was a part of
> Seagate). Again, it DID NOT indicate that anything was wrong. Things were
> a
> little noisy, sounds better since I ran chkdsk c: /r + Sea Tools.
>
> I had to install .Net Framework to run Sea Tools. Upon check Events, I
> noticed:
> Event Type: Warning
> Event Source: ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
> Event Category: Setup
> Event ID: 1020
> Date: 9/30/2008
> Time: 12:16:39 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: DELMA-GATEWAY
> Description:
> Updates to the IIS metabase were aborted because IIS is either not
> installed
> or is disabled on this machine. To configure ASP.NET to run in IIS, please
> install or enable IIS and re-register ASP.NET using aspnet_regiis.exe /i.
>
> (Got Page NOT found) on this...
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
>
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
> I know this is comparing apples to organes, (do you believe I can't spell
> this).
> I checked Services. I noticed ASP.net was 'disabled', so I enabled it.
> At shutdown, I got an error regarding ASP. (if it's not one thing, it's
> another)
> I do NOT need this service. Can I disable it again ?
>
> I plan to replace Harddrive.. can't take any chances ! I have 80GB, want
> to
> go to about 160GB. Is there anything I should check..like can my Pentium 4
> (2003) handle this larger drive?
>
> Thank You
> --
> dale
>
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:99EC479A-3349-4D87-A860-F615D6B79360@microsoft.com...
>> > Error at startup: a disk read error occured; press ctr/alt/delete to
>> > restart
>> >
>> > Upon restart, I checked the 'Event Viewer'.
>> >
>> > Event Type: Error
>> > Event Source: Disk
>> > Event Category: None
>> > Event ID: 7
>> > Date: 9/16/2008
>> > Time: 10:03:30 PM
>> > User: N/A
>> > Description: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block
>> >
>> > Product: Windows Operating System
>> > ID: 7
>> > Source: Disk
>> > Version: 5.2
>> > Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_BAD_BLOCK
>> > Message: The device, %1, has a bad block.
>> > Explanation The device has a bad block of memory, which Windows
>> > attempted
>> > to read.
>> > The data might be missing or corrupted.
>> > User Action - If this event is logged regularly, replace the hard
>> > disk
>> > drive.
>> >
>> > Is this an 'error' on 'D'[CD/DVD] drive or 'C'[Hard Drive] ?
>> >
>> > I ran chkdsk:
>> >
>> > Event Type: Information
>> > Event Source: Winlogon
>> > Event Category: None
>> > Event ID: 1001
>> > Date: 9/17/2008
>> > Time: 12:48:26 PM
>> > User: N/A
>> > Description: Checking file system on C: The type of the file system
>> > is
>> > NTFS.
>> >
>> > A disk check has been scheduled.
>> > Windows will now check the disk.
>> > Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
>> > Cleaning up 322 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
>> > Cleaning up 322 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
>> > Cleaning up 322 unused security descriptors.
>> > CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
>> > Usn Journal verification completed.
>> > CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
>> > File data verification completed.
>> > CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
>> > Free space verification is complete.
>> >
>> > 80027765 KB total disk space.
>> > 5762648 KB in 37862 files.
>> > 14076 KB in 4694 indexes.
>> > 0 KB in bad sectors.
>> > 117237 KB in use by the system.
>> > 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
>> > 74133804 KB available on disk.
>> >
>> > 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
>> > 20006941 total allocation units on disk.
>> > 18533451 allocation units available on disk.
>> >
>> > Windows has finished checking your disk. Please wait while your
>> > computer
>> > restarts.
>> >
>> > Product: Windows Operating System
>> > ID: 1001
>> > Source: Winlogon
>> > Version: 5.0
>> > Symbolic Name: EVENT_AUTOCHK_DATA
>> > Explanation Chkdsk ran on one of the volumes when the computer
>> > restarted.
>> > A log file, bootex.log, was created and stored in the root of the
>> > volume.
>> > This file states whether Chkdsk encountered any errors and, if so,
>> > whether
>> > they were fixed.
>> >
>> > I cannot find the 'bootex.log' file.
>> >
>> > I have run:
>> >
>> > 1. EMSA Disk Check Version 1.0
>> > 2. HD Tune
>> >
>> > Tests do NOt seem to indicate that the Harddrive is bad.
>> >
>> > I have NOT had this error again.
>> >
>> > Thank You
>> >
>> > --
>> > dale
>>
>> You should run this command: chkdsk c: /r
>>
>>
>>