Re: CHKDSK: unused index entries and security descriptors.



"Gerry" wrote:
Stephen

I would try HD Tune (freeware).
Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface
scan with HD Tune.

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for the tip. HD Tune is a useful utility!
Here are my test results (needs courier font :P ):


HD Tune: ST3200827AS Information

Firmware version : 3.AAE
Serial number : 4ND2YPAK
Capacity : 186.3 GB (~200.0 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-7 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100) <-- I will look into this

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes

Partition : 1
Drive letter : C:\
Label : Grainger2 OS
Capacity : 19610 MB
Usage : 74.57%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes

Partition : 2
Drive letter : D:\
Label : User Data
Capacity : 23532 MB
Usage : 78.23%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

Partition : 3
Drive letter : E:\
Label : Shared Data
Capacity : 86286 MB
Usage : 83.82%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

Partition : 4
Drive letter : F:\
Label : S200-log3
Capacity : 61341 MB
Usage : 58.85%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : No

Partition : 5
Drive letter :
Label :
Capacity : 7 MB
Usage : 0.00%
Type : unknown (78h)
Bootable : No


HD Tune: ST3200827AS Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData
Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 108 92 6 17847001 Ok

(03) Spin Up Time 98 98 0 0 Ok

(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20 966 Ok

(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 36 0 Ok

(07) Seek Error Rate 79 60 30 87041145 Ok

(09) Power On Hours Count 97 97 0 2751 Ok

(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 Ok

(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 20 1015 Ok

(BB) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 Ok

(BD) (unknown attribute) 100 100 0 0 Ok

(BE) Airflow Temperature 61 48 45 690225191 Ok

(C2) Temperature 39 52 0 39 Ok

(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 51 49 0 19606679 Ok

(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 Ok

(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 Ok

(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok

(C8) Write Error Rate 100 253 0 0 Ok

(CA) TA Counter Increased 100 253 0 0 Ok


Power On Time : 2751
Health Status : Ok



HD Tune: ST3200827AS Error Scan

Scanned data : 190705 MB
Damaged Blocks : 0.0 %
Elapsed Time : 61:56


In summary, it seems that the hard disk is in good health. Wouldn't you
agree?
These results agree with the other hard drive diagnositcs that I have run,
so it seems that it is the OS installation which is a bit flakey. Any
further ideas on what I can do to fix it?

Incidentilly, the computer system was purchased in Sep '04, and this hard
disk and this installation of Windows XP Professional (Grainger2 OS) are both
exactly one year old.
.



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