Bad HDD or bad 'file data'

Further to a recent posting where I reported what I thought was a bad HDD
I'm now having second thoughts. The problem arises whenever I try to backup
C:\ to Acronis software or indeed whenever I tried to copy all of C:\ drive
to another drive - the process would freeze part way through and the only
way to recover was to re-boot. Today I thought I'd run the Checkdisk routine
from Win XP Tools. This breaks the process down into 5 steps. The first 3
steps ran through OK but the system froze at the 4th stage of the process
where the 'file data' is being checked.
Can anyone throw light on this for me and perhaps suggest how I may correct
the problem without re-loading OS and data from scratch.

Malke
Thu Sep 27 05:56:07 CDT 2007

John M Carter wrote:
> Further to a recent posting where I reported what I thought was a bad HDD
> I'm now having second thoughts. The problem arises whenever I try to backup
> C:\ to Acronis software or indeed whenever I tried to copy all of C:\ drive
> to another drive - the process would freeze part way through and the only
> way to recover was to re-boot. Today I thought I'd run the Checkdisk routine
> from Win XP Tools. This breaks the process down into 5 steps. The first 3
> steps ran through OK but the system froze at the 4th stage of the process
> where the 'file data' is being checked.
> Can anyone throw light on this for me and perhaps suggest how I may correct
> the problem without re-loading OS and data from scratch.
>
>

Since you didn't post to your original thread, I have no idea what
you've already tried. So, did you run a drive diagnostic utility and do
a thorough test and that's why you are having "second thoughts"? If you
didn't test your drive, then you should put your second thoughts aside
until you do.

Get a diagnostic utility from the drive mftr. or use Seagate's SeaTools
and do the thorough test. If the drive fails any physical tests, discard it.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot


Malke
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DL
Thu Sep 27 08:43:22 CDT 2007

And if you are using Acronis TI to clone/copy it will fall over if the
memory is slightly iffy

As was posted in your origonal post, to which you didnt respond

"John M Carter" <johnmcarter@pajero05.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Further to a recent posting where I reported what I thought was a bad HDD
> I'm now having second thoughts. The problem arises whenever I try to
> backup C:\ to Acronis software or indeed whenever I tried to copy all of
> C:\ drive to another drive - the process would freeze part way through and
> the only way to recover was to re-boot. Today I thought I'd run the
> Checkdisk routine from Win XP Tools. This breaks the process down into 5
> steps. The first 3 steps ran through OK but the system froze at the 4th
> stage of the process where the 'file data' is being checked.
> Can anyone throw light on this for me and perhaps suggest how I may
> correct the problem without re-loading OS and data from scratch.
>