re: Possibly failing hard drive
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1327 messages posted)
If you suspect your HD may be getting flaky, new drives are pretty cheap so it might
save a lot of headaches later to "clone" (image) the drive now to a new one. A good
free product is DriveImage XML found here: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
You'll need a same size or larger drive to copy the image to.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:35 am, Devarshi Patel wrote:
>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.
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