Re: Is my diagnosis correct?

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"rogerneilson" <didactylos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Where do I find the event log?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roger
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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> I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after
> several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read
> anything else).
>
> Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.
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> "Roger Neilson" <didactylos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from
>>the
>> C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
>> days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer
>> started -
>> form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
>> anything to the autoruns at all.
>>
>> Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but
>> if
>> they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
>> and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything
>> done.
>>
>> I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
>> problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the
>> detail.
>> When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
>> reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was
>> defraggged
>> just afew weeks ago.
>>
>> I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any
>> second
>> opinions.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>
>


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