Re: Error Code 0x000000F4 and RAM?

You may have other problems but what is immediately obvious is that you
have totally inadequate free disk space. You can run on 15% free space
but really you need around 25%. Your problem is a little surprising
given the size of volume C. Do you have any other drives or partitions?

I have some suggestions for creating more space, which should help.

Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View, Advanced Settings and
verify that the box before "Show hidden files and folders" is checked
and "Hide protected operating system files " is unchecked. You may need
to scroll down to see the second item. You should also make certain that
the box before "Hide extensions for known file types" is not checked.
Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected and then
select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total Size, and
Free Space.

It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb.
Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time
find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit.
When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.

The default allocation for the Windows Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. 5%
should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your
Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the
slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get too full as
if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will bypass the
Recycle Bin and be gone for ever.

Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is
that for temporary internet files especially if you do not store
offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive.
Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to
1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options,
General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the
same time look at the number of days history is held.

In the Windows Directory of your C partition you will have some
Uninstall folders in your Windows folder typically:
$NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc. These files may
be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text of the folder
name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can compress
them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General,
Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space.
On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size
on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS
formatted drive / partition.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.

Now let us see what affect that has had on fragmentation of files. It
should look a lot better. Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse.
Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt
in your My Documents Folder and post a copy.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Jenkins wrote:
HD Tune: ST3160023A Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData
Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 48 46 6 14971
Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 97 96 0 0
Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20 146
Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 60 60 36 1605
Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 84 60 30 323688790
Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 90 90 0 8882
Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0
Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 99 99 20 1466
Ok
(C2) Temperature 39 56 0 39
Ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 48 46 0 14971
Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 181
Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 181
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 : 8882
Health Status : Ok



HD Tune: ST3160023A Information

Firmware version : 8.01
Serial number : 5JS3X47M
Capacity : 149.1 GB (~160.0 GB)
Buffer size : 8192 KB
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-6
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

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 :
Capacity : 152617 MB
Usage : 97.66%
Type : NTFS
Bootable : Yes



Ok.. This doesn't make since. My computer has been showing the signs
of a failing harddrive..(Disappearing files, Crashing during high data
transfer, etc.)

Anyway, one other question... My Windows CD is scratched up beyond
proper use. My first reaction to such a major problem was to reformat,
but it failed. Anyway, I have a windows CD Key, but no working CD. Is
there any way I can reformat without having to purchase another copy?
Any free way?


.

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