Re: defrag/ error check/ Safe mode problems
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:01:46 -0000
Barbara
The files found.005 etc are recoveries of damaged or corrupted files by
chkdsk. They are not a good sign.
You need to find out whether you have a failing hard disk? For chkdsk to
continually provide a new crop of these files suggests this may so.
How old is the computer? Is this an original hard disk?
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 C:\ 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.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Barbara Z" <BarbaraZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:20704A3D-AFC6-4A61-8F08-2512D2469357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Trying to clean out a Sony Vaio computer. Doing lots of system
> maintenance -
> found infected files, etc. through AVG and online scans... Some of the
> problems I need help with:
> 1) Disk check starts with every startup. I noticed it seems to run over &
> over, but on subsequent scans, the error list seems to be shorter - maybe
> it's just taking time to fix everything(?). I let it continue overnight -
> this AM a message said: Disk Boot failure - Insert system disk... I
> just
> restarted it - ok. How do I get it not to run on startup?? or does it
> have
> to fix everything first??
> 2) Defrag won't run 'cuz "there is corruption in file C:\FOUND.005". When
> I
> tried to delete that file thru Win Exp, "is not accessible. ..file or dir.
> is
> corrupt and unreadable" When I retried this AM, the \FOUND.005 was not
> there, but \FOUND.002 was the "corrupt" file. Again, can't delete thru
> WinExp.
> This is why I'm thinking the Error checking is actually doing its job, but
> a
> little at a time. How do I get the defrag to run?? --
> 3) I installed AdAware & SpyBot; the AdAware has been starting and then
> freezing - each time it goes a little further (700-800 files). After last
> night, it went to 76702 files. Does this tie in with #1 and 2 above??? I
> was going to uninstall and reinstall, but I seem to be making progress.
> Any
> advice??
> 4) I downloaded sysclean, but when I tried to go to Safe Mode, it freezes
> on the screen where all the drivers are loading, around Drivers\Mups.sys
> ?? I
> retried and it went to Safe Mode, but I couldn't get sysclean to run.
> Then,
> every time I try to start Safe Mode, it jams at the same place as above.
> The owner said he went to some history site, and when he clicked on a
> link,
> a porn pic came up, and then other problems started. S'posedly, some worm
> came in. He also got this computer from a sister's friend, bot didn't get
> any OS CD, so I can't re-install the OS.
>
> Like I said, I think I'm making headway, but if anybody has some advice to
> speed this up, I'd appreciate it. He wants to install NIS, but hasn't
> been
> successful - he bypasses some error messages. I'm not going to reinstall
> it
> 'til I'm reasonably sure this computer is CLEAN.
>
> Barb Zakrzewski
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