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| Thread ID: 106273 | 2010-01-03 05:49:00 | CHKDSK issue | clevertrev (12879) | Press F1 |
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| 845110 | 2010-01-03 05:49:00 | Hi Guys, I'm having a bit of a problem. When my pc was coming out of hibernation it was only showing a blue windows xp screen and would do nothing else unless you rebooted it. This I did this morning and it then went on to run chkdsk. Now after chkdsk had completed it came up with cannot open volume for direct access. I rebooted and again it came up with this message. I tried rebooting from an xp pro installation disk and ran windows recovery console. Upon doing that chkdsk reported volume is clean. windows has finished checking the disk. That's as far as it goes and will not boot any further. Any ideas as to what might be causing the problem. Could it be a faulty HDD? Welcome any reply. Cheers Trev |
clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 845111 | 2010-01-03 06:20:00 | Yep. Faulty HDD for sure I'd say. Run the HDD manufacturers diagnostic software on it to see. You could boot off the Windows CD and go into Recovery Console and run chkdsk /p/r which is better than its selfcheck. But that just looks at file structure poblems, not the disk itself. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 845112 | 2010-01-03 06:33:00 | Thanks for your prompt reply pctek. I would love to try diagnostics but unfortunately now it is only booting as far as the initial black windows startup screen and while I can hear the disk loading/working it will go no further. I have a 500GB Seagate 7200.10 in it. Any suggestions as to what a good replacement would be? Cheers Trev |
clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 845113 | 2010-01-03 20:00:00 | I'm heading out today to buy a new HDD to reinstall XP Pro on so my machine can actually boot up. Then I'm thinking of trying to repair my faulty drive once this installed on the new one. Any ideas on how I my go about getting data off the damaged disk. I do have it backed up to an external so I'm not too worried if I can't. Thanks for your help. Cheers Trev |
clevertrev (12879) | ||
| 845114 | 2010-01-03 21:43:00 | Thanks for your prompt reply pctek . I would love to try diagnostics but unfortunately now it is only booting as far as the initial black windows startup screen I have a 500GB Seagate 7200 . 10 in it . You boot off the diagnostics CD . You don't have to load anything from the HDD . The Seagate should be under warranty unless it is older than 3 years . Or maybe 5 years if its an older one . You can check on their website . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 845115 | 2010-01-04 00:55:00 | Thanks for all your help PCTEK. I didn't actually get a diagnostics CD when I purchased the drive from OCZone. But it is under 3 years old being bought in Oct 07 so I have sent an email off to them. I'm not sure now that is actually the disk as I've managed to boot up the machine in SAFE mode and am currently running windows defragment over it. I'm still intending on doing a clean reinstall of XP PRO onto a new drive and then if possible reformat the old one. We'll see how it goes! Cheers Trev |
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