Re: Please Help - Really weird File System or Chkdsk problem

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No.Such.Address@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have one hard drive partitioned into volumes C, D, E, and F
Running chkdsk on any volume exceot C always shows no errors.

If I run chkdsk on C I get different results every time I run it even
running it back to back with no other apps running. On rare occasions it
will show no errors but almost all of the time in will show one or more of
a large variety of errors.

If I run chkdsk C: /F, it of course wants to schedule chkdsk on the next
re-boot. If I allow it to do that and reboot chkdsk will run and find no
errors. It NEVER finds errors when booting just when windows is already
running.

I have been having occasional other problems that make it look like data
read from the disk is incorrect but if it were simple a disk or driver
problem, then I would thing that it would occur during boot as well, but it
doesn't.

Test the hard drive with a diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.'s website. You will create a bootable CD with the file you download. You will need third-party burning software to do this such as Roxio, Nero, or the free CDBurnerXP Pro.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Boot with the CD you made and do a thorough test of the drive. If it fails any physical tests, replace it.


Malke
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