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Thread ID: 115933	2011-02-10 05:46:00	Is my Hard drive failing	tuiruru (12277)	Press F1

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1176779	2011-02-10 05:46:00	After the last freeze with Chrome (see other thread) I restarted the lappie and waited for about half an hour before Windows told me it had found a problem and was trying to repair it. Eventually it decided that it couldn't repair it. I went into Advanced repair options and chose System Restore. To my surprise it told me no restore points had been set for the computer. I went into Safe Mode and was told the same thing. Restarted and it went into Normal Mode OK this time. Again tried to get to System Restore and got the attached message. In the last 10 minutes Windows has created it's own restore point. I did create a full disk image with Active@ Disk Image a few days ago but what's the best way to proceed from here? :dogeye:	tuiruru (12277)
1176780	2011-02-10 05:53:00	Depending on the version of windows, see if system restore is enabled. If it isnt, thats why that message comes up. And SR wont work in safe mode. It sounds like youre getting confused with SR and restoring the system ?? Theyre not the same thing	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1176781	2011-02-10 06:03:00	Depending on the version of windows, see if system restore is enabled. If it isnt, thats why that message comes up. And SR wont work in safe mode. It sounds like youre getting confused with SR and restoring the system ?? Theyre not the same thingLike I say, System Restore is working now - it created one about half an hour ago (see attached) but it seems to have lost the ones from the last few days!	tuiruru (12277)
1176782	2011-02-10 06:18:00	Try this, click start, type in eventvwr - Open Event Viewer, under system, look through and see if there are blocks of Disk error ( or any blocks for that matter) if so thats generally a sign theres problems with the HDD, or the Controller on the Motherboard.	wainuitech (129)
1176783	2011-02-10 06:42:00	I had a very similar problem on a customer's machine this week. They brought it because it crashed and wouldn't load back into Windows Vista. I tested it and it was doing the same thing as yours, saying that it could not repair the problem and so I tried to do system restore and found there was only 1 listed. So I tried that one and it eventually came back saying that it could not find the file. So I tried again and then that only 1 restore point was gone as well so got the same screen as you have posted. I fully tested the hardware, RAM, HDD etc and ran AV scans and was unable to fault it so ended up having to backup the HDD and format and reinstall from scratch. Still don't know why it happened....	CYaBro (73)
1176784	2011-02-10 06:52:00	Hi guys Well I've had a look at event viewer - nothing is flagged as "critical" and under "error" I can't see anything about blocks. Should I run chkdsk? If so, is /r sufficient or do I need other switches as well? Thanks	tuiruru (12277)
1176785	2011-02-10 08:29:00	Dowload the free version of HDTune and run that on your HDD. www.hdtune.com	CYaBro (73)
1176786	2011-02-10 09:12:00	And SR wont work in safe mode. Yes it does. You just can't undo it. :pf1mobmini:	pcuser42 (130)
1176787	2011-02-10 20:10:00	Last night i ran chkdsk /f /r . It ticked thru OK until it got to: "Chkdsk is verifying free space (Stage 5 of 5) 39 percent complete 7474382 of 25279300 free clusters processed" and there it sat for 45 minutes until I shut it down and went to bed. What next? Guess I'll have a look at HD tune CYaBro Will it fix bad clusters?	tuiruru (12277)
1176788	2011-02-10 20:31:00	Edit: If HD Tune is going to take as long as chkdsk (around 3 hours -it's a nominally 320 (depending which number base you use) gig HD with about 70 gig free) I'll leave it 'til tonight, so please keep other suggestions coming in so I can get an idea of where I'm headed on this - Thanks :thumbs:	tuiruru (12277)
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