Re: Ongoing HD problem:

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On Mar 18, 6:26 am, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Navyguy wrote:
On Mar 17, 4:53 pm, Daave <dcwashNOS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Navyguy <magine...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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Hi Dave,

Here are my replies to some of your questions;

You need to reinstall all your drivers. You can find them either on
the drivers disk you hopefully have or download them from the Dell
support site. Just enter your tag number and you will get a choice of
all possible drivers for that model. In order to determine which
drivers to use for *your* particuar PC, go to Device Manager and note
every item
that has a question mark (or is it exclamation mark?).

I checked this and none have a exclamation mark or question mark.

Does this mean that you had already installed all your drivers? If not,
I'm puzzled why you don't have any items with question marks. If you had
used a Recovery CD that lays down an image of the hard drive the way it
was the day the PC left the factory, I would understand. But you used an
installation disk!

I then installed and updated Avira which found (3) warnings, it use to
have (2). Since you said not to worry about the two I previously
mentioned I didn’t but here is the 3rd warning:
C:\Documents and Settings\owner\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files [0] Archive type: CAB(Microsoft) --> FP_AX_CAB_INSTALLER.exe
[WARNING] No further files can be extracted from this archive.

I'm curious as to what this issue is.

No issue to be concerned with. It's a false positive.

The only issue was that it was a warning found by Avira and I didn’t
know if I should ignore it or be concerned?

Ignore it.

Why don't you tell us the *exact* command you typed in. Perhaps there
was an inadvertant typo and checkdisk thinks you want to scan F:,
which doesn't exist!

At  C:\Documents and Settings\Owner> I typed chkdsk

I'm pretty sure you need to hit the space bar before the slash:
chkdsk /f

Yes, I know about the spacing but I did not run a chkdsk /f. Perhaps
this is the usual warning it gives when typing chkdsk? I ran it again
and the warning is there again so this seems plausible, I just
mentioned it because I had never seen it before.

You are correct. That is normal behavior. Either use the /f switch or
run Checkdisk thusly:

Double-click My Computer, right-click C:, and select Properties. Click
the Tools tab and then on the "Check Now" button. When you get the
check disk options, just check the top one. If you have lots of time,
you can select the other one, too. This will run the first thing after
you reboot.

I use MSN Live Hotmail to read my emails, so I guess yes I use the
Web. I didn't realize there was any other way, I've used Hotmail since
being on the Internet. I use to have a host file which obviously was
removed when I reinstalled XP.

The other way to read e-mail is by using an e-mail program. :-)

Outlook Express comes with XP, and many people use it for *both* e-mail
*and* newsgroups. There are a number of other e-mail programs, including
Mozilla's Thunderbird. In order to use an e-mail client, you will need
to have the information provided by your e-mail service provider: user
name and password and various settings. You might find this page
helpful:

http://email.about.com/cs/oetipstricks/qt/et041202.htm

I've never used it, but a number of people have been using Windows Live
Mail:

http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!5359.entry

Or you can use a browser like Firefox with an AdBlock plugin.

As I understand it, Firefox would replace IE7 and you would have to
basically build your own browser. I started to try it once but that’s
why I didn’t go any further with it.

You can run both Firefox and IE7. You have the option of specifying one
or the other as your default browser. If you would rather not "build
your own" as you put it by using addons, you may want to try Opera
instead, which is quite good and can also block ads (but without any
addons):

http://www.opera.com/

Oh, and it's free. :-)

The partition issue aside,  I’m still left with the chkdsk /f problem
(hanging in step 2 of 3 - verifying indexes) and I can’t just ignore
the file problems chkdsk found. I have scheduled chkdsk /f to see if
it works this time.

Yes, that is the proper way to run Checkdisk. (Or try the other method
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Hi Dave,
Here are my answers to your questions.

Does this mean that you had already installed all your drivers? If
not, I'm puzzled why you don't have any items with question marks. If
you had used a Recovery CD that lays down an image of the hard drive
the way it was the day the PC left the factory, I would understand.
But you used an installation disk!

Well I don’t understand it myself but perhaps since I didn’t format
the HD, only the partition I didn’t need to load the drivers for
everything? After using the Reinstallation CD, I installed the anti-
virus programs e.g. Avira, Spybot etc and the following (not in
order):

Excel and Word via Microsoft Office XP
Santa Cruz Turtle Beach (sound, speakers)
Dell Image Expert 2000

I do have other CD’s which I chose not to install:

Microsoft Money 2002
Dell Backup for Antivirus and Support software
Drivers and Utilities for Reinstalling V.92 (capable) 56K Telephony
Data/Fax/Voice Modem software for Microsoft Windows
Dell Drivers and Utilities for audio, CD’s, keyboard, mouse, network
video etc (pretty much useless and outdated)

In addition I have CD’s for the following but they weren’t needed:

Microsoft 4000 (ergonomic keyboard)
Dell 1503FP Color Monitor
SetPoint 2.42a Microsft Windows XP (Logitech mouse)

You are correct. That is normal behavior. Either use the /f switch or
run Checkdisk thusly:

Double-click My Computer, right-click C:, and select Properties. Click
the Tools tab and then on the "Check Now" button. When you get the
check disk options, just check the top one. If you have lots of time,
you can select the other one, too. This will run the first thing after
you reboot.

Yes I have run it this way as well with the same results (hanging at
step 2 of 3 - verifying indexes) and I’ve also run the other scan to
check for bad sectors (it does take awhile!).

The other way to read e-mail is by using an e-mail program. :-)
Outlook Express comes with XP, and many people use it for *both* e-
mail *and* newsgroups. There are a number of other e-mail programs,
including Mozilla's Thunderbird. In order to use an e-mail client, you
will need to have the information provided by your e-mail service
provider: user name and password and various settings.

I've never used it, but a number of people have been using Windows
Live Mail:

As I understand it, Firefox would replace IE7 and you would have to > basically build your own browser. I started to try it once but that’s > why I didn’t go any further with it.
You can run both Firefox and IE7. You have the option of specifying
one or the other as your default browser. If you would rather not
"build your own" as you put it by using addons, you may want to try
Opera instead, which is quite good and can also block ads (but without
any addons):

Oh, and it's free. :-)

The problem (for me) is that Microsoft constantly changes its mail
from Hotmail to Outlook to Live Mail, to Live Hotmail. It’s hard to
keep up with them. Also, I don’t like the fact of having everything
all in one place. I like how Live Hotmail automatically signs in and
it ‘seems’ to make the computer run faster; I have put up filters and
blockers etc. I prefer a very simple mail versus all the bells and
whistles that some like. I have heard of Opera and I will look into it
further once I have my computer problems are resolved. In passing, why
is there a problem with using Live Hotmail versus another to read my
emails? I don’t receive that many and I don’t open any that I don’t
know who their from.



Robert
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