Re: Corrupt SOFTWARE hive keeps recorrupting

From: "K. Brian Kelley" <brian_kelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


| This was the cause on one of the systems I use. The hard drive was going
| bad and while I was able to recover the hive once (long enough to get some
| data off), the next time I booted the system the error re-occurred. Replaced
| the hard drive, re-installed the OS, and all is well.
|
| K. Brian Kelley, brian underscore kelley at sqlpass dot org
| http://www.truthsolutions.com/
|

Often this kind of problem can be corrected by obtaing the manufacturers diagnostic
software. For exmple in the case of IBM/Hitachi hard disks, the Drive Fitness Test (DFT).
Then the software will detect bad sectors, move the data to good sectors and then block-out
the bad sectors so thet won't be used again.

This approach is good if it is a only a sporadic problem. If the problem is ongoing with
Bad Sectors then a new hard disk would be warranted. However one can use software such as
Drive Fitness Test (DFT), repair the problem and then proceed to Ghost the disk to a
replacement hard
drive. Thus, hopefully, there will be no data loss.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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