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| Thread ID: 49904 | 2004-10-04 11:45:00 | Sudden HD "Disk Write error" blue screen | Blumikki (6236) | Press F1 |
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| 278237 | 2004-10-04 11:45:00 | Have recently developed a repeatedly "Disk Write Error - unable to write to disk in drive C - Data or files may be lost" blue screen o' death. Will appear three of four times over a 20sec period then not at all for maybe 1/2 hr or so. There is no obvious action (that can recognise anyway) that activates this. On start up, suggests that the hard disk may have developed physical problems, and leaps straight in to scandisk thoro' mode, which reports no problems. Scan disk standard mode will no longer run as, again, "a thoro test needs to be run first". Run uptodate AVG virus scanner, reports "no problems". Recently deleted about 3Gig of unwanted games from the computer (properly etc and thoroughly). Ran "disk defragmenter" afterwards, but cancelled at about 50% due to time constraints, and problems started afterwards. Main points: 1) On boot, suggests hard disk physical problems, leaps to scandisk thoro' no problems found however 2) Frequent blue screen prompting "Disk Write Error - unable to write to disk in drive C Data or files may be lost" 3) Scandisk standard won't run due to "possible physical hard disk errors" 4) Disk defrgmentor won't run re same. 5) AVG can't find any potential virus's 6) Help me!! Thanks all - am stuck here! |
Blumikki (6236) | ||
| 278238 | 2004-10-04 11:51:00 | uh......If your os can't write to your hd,and tells you your hd is faulty then i would be directing the thousand yard stare at the harddrive,or a point 999.5 yards past where the hd is situated,...provided i had a clean line of site that is,otherwise i would be staring at whatever was blocking the view lmao. It must be late,my money is on your harddrive being faulty,but it would take a proper diagnoses to give a 100 percent answer,do u have anothe rhd you can try by any chance? |
metla (154) | ||
| 278239 | 2004-10-04 12:03:00 | please backup your impt data now... then perhaps buy a new HDD , transfer your data to the new HDD using whatever tools the new HDD comes with [ e.g. Seagate has a migration tool] , then sort out wassup with the old HDD ... :| |
KatiMike (242) | ||
| 278240 | 2004-10-04 12:42:00 | trhey know what they are dooing, listen too them. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278241 | 2004-10-04 19:13:00 | As already stated previously the drive is shot, time for a new one. There is no effective way of repairing it. Although I have had some success with HD Regenerator on similar drives also a low level format can block the bad sectors & make it usable again for a while. (or wreck it completely) I definitely wouldn't use it again for a machine in daily use but it might last a while on an old internet box or such I have one the kids use on a daily basis for surfing etc, that I ressurected with HD Regenerator 6mths ago But I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it |
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