Two_dogs
24th Mar 2006, 14:22
G"day,
I came home the other day to be greeted by a new blue screen of death.:mad:
One of the puppies, (4 Years old and quite computer literate, just ask him) had been playing some of his educational games earlier in the day. He sometimes gets a bit bored and plays with my stuff too. On this occasion he had been rearranging the desktop icons and probably other tinkering as well. (I have tried different user logons with different desktops for each of us, but it always seems to cause more problems, WinME)
This before unseen BSOD advised, 'Cannot write to 'C' drive. Some files or folders may be lost'. The computer was completely locked up and I had to shut down with the power switch. On reboot the auto scandisk program started with the 'Thorough [performs Standard test and scans disk surface for errors]' option enabled.
I needed access to my computer at the time so did not wait for the test to finish, but cancelled instead. Re-ran scandisk in normal mode and it repaired some file size problems. The computer was very sluggish and locked up several times while trying to run Outlook, though other apps did not seem to have the same effect. Each time I started Outlook the program failed to load and locked the machine up. On each reboot the scandisk 'Thorough' option was enabled by default. I then ran the 'Inbox repair tool and recovered some files and Outlook ran normally.
I eventually ran scandisk in the thorough mode, which took about 4 hours for a 20G drive, and it reported 12 bad clusters, 5 unused and 7 containing the file C: \windows\help\wmplayer.chm. I am assuming that part of my outlook.pst file was also on bad clusters and the repair tool moved them to another cluster as the program now runs fine and all items appear intact.
Q1. Is the scandisk defaulting to the 'thorough' option part of the SMART disk monitoring program, as the usual auto scandisk option is for a standard test? Also, what info does the SMART drive monitoring program give the user and how, popup dialogue box etc?
Q2. Is it time to replace the hard drive before it all goes pear shaped? Could it be the computer has suffered a hard knock and crashed the stylus on the drive?
Two Dogs
I came home the other day to be greeted by a new blue screen of death.:mad:
One of the puppies, (4 Years old and quite computer literate, just ask him) had been playing some of his educational games earlier in the day. He sometimes gets a bit bored and plays with my stuff too. On this occasion he had been rearranging the desktop icons and probably other tinkering as well. (I have tried different user logons with different desktops for each of us, but it always seems to cause more problems, WinME)
This before unseen BSOD advised, 'Cannot write to 'C' drive. Some files or folders may be lost'. The computer was completely locked up and I had to shut down with the power switch. On reboot the auto scandisk program started with the 'Thorough [performs Standard test and scans disk surface for errors]' option enabled.
I needed access to my computer at the time so did not wait for the test to finish, but cancelled instead. Re-ran scandisk in normal mode and it repaired some file size problems. The computer was very sluggish and locked up several times while trying to run Outlook, though other apps did not seem to have the same effect. Each time I started Outlook the program failed to load and locked the machine up. On each reboot the scandisk 'Thorough' option was enabled by default. I then ran the 'Inbox repair tool and recovered some files and Outlook ran normally.
I eventually ran scandisk in the thorough mode, which took about 4 hours for a 20G drive, and it reported 12 bad clusters, 5 unused and 7 containing the file C: \windows\help\wmplayer.chm. I am assuming that part of my outlook.pst file was also on bad clusters and the repair tool moved them to another cluster as the program now runs fine and all items appear intact.
Q1. Is the scandisk defaulting to the 'thorough' option part of the SMART disk monitoring program, as the usual auto scandisk option is for a standard test? Also, what info does the SMART drive monitoring program give the user and how, popup dialogue box etc?
Q2. Is it time to replace the hard drive before it all goes pear shaped? Could it be the computer has suffered a hard knock and crashed the stylus on the drive?
Two Dogs