Re: disk error

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Jim

A paging operation is not a reference to a pagefile.

When your computer pages information to or from the disk, if a generic
error occurs, it logs an Event ID 51 event message. In a paging
operation, the operating system either swaps a page of memory from
memory to disk or retrieves a page of memory from disk to memory. It is
part of the memory management of Microsoft Windows.
Quote from a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article.

One common question about this event is how do you identify what is the
actual drive/device mentioned in the event? For example, if the device
path is \Device\Harddisk5\D and I have several drives installed or
attached to my computer, which one is the actual Harddisk5? To identify
it, open the Disk Management applet (diskmgmt.msc) and select a volume
on the list displayed in the top panel. Under it, the list of drives and
their number is displayed and you can match the hard disk number shown
there with the one listed in the event description. For the example
specified, the \Device\Harddisk5 device corresponds to hard disk 5 (an
external hard disk attached via USB).
Source: http://snipurl.com/ab8bb [www_eventid_net]

There are a number of possible causes mentioned in the link above but
none that I am able to relate to your situation.

What is your computer make and model?

What is your motherboad make model?

Hard disk controllers?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Jim Madsen wrote:
Hi all:

Every once in a while (2-4 times a day), I get the following warning
in the System Event Viewer:

Source: Disk

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 1/17/2009
Time: 6:30:21 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MyComputerName
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging
operation.

When I started noticing these errors, I replaced the hard drive (which
was only 4 and 1/2 years old) with a new hard drive, but I still get
the errors with about the same frequency. The error almost always
occurs when Norton Ghost does its daily backup of "Documents and
Settings" to an external Hard Drive, but sometimes I get the error at
other times.
The new hard drive seems to have sped up the system quite a bit
(someone said new hard drives spin faster).

Any thoughts about the error?


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