Possibly failing hard drive Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:35 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Devarshi Patel (15 messages posted) I got this message on startup a couple days ago and today my PC froze...again: Checking file system on c: The type of the file system is NTFS The volume is dirty CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1) CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2) The PC rebooted normally after it finished this. I've gotten this message several times before including the occaisional freeze up. Could this be a failing hard drive? What can I do to prevent it? Should I run a hard drive diagnostic tool and/or update my drivers. I run my defragment software regularly. I have plenty of space available on the hard drive. Responses to this message: re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:20 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Larry: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:05 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:24 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 9:35 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 10:20 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 12:57 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 2:00 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 3:50 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 4:23 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:20 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Larry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 11:05 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum