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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on March 04, 2009, 07:55:10 PM

Title: More computer problems...
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on March 04, 2009, 07:55:10 PM: Okay, I have officially had it with this piece o' junk! Everytime I run chkdsk in read-only mode, it finds a problem with the filesystem; either a corrupted index, free space marked as allocated, or something else, like lost files that it "recovers." But when I run it with full options (/F /V /R /X), which of course requires a restart, NOTHING IS FOUND! I swear, I'm ready to blow this pile o' crap SKY HIGH! :angry

On a side note, I know I'm supposed to be "absent" from GOF for the time being, and for now, I still am. But this is ridiculous! :anger :angry
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: Petrie. on March 05, 2009, 08:02:22 AM: Well there's a bug or problem somewhere otherwise this wouldn't happen. What program is telling you that there's an issue with the harddisk?
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on March 05, 2009, 12:46:48 PM: CHKDSK. Except, I ran it off the CD in the Recovery Console, and it seems to have fixed some apparent problems which the hard drive's copy of CHKDSK seems to have missed. Took the advice from a friend. The odd thing about that is, CHKDSK (the hard drive copy) will not find any errors when I run it with full options, i.e., set it to run on the next boot. There it will find nothing... Not sure what's going on, and now it's still doing it... Oddball... If this hard drive is going out (less than a month old!) then I'm gonna be really pissed off....

EDIT: Yet, oddly enough, there's no bad sectors, so that's probably not it... Hmm...
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 05, 2009, 04:05:46 PM: Tip #1........don't use CHKDSK. Ever. It's pretty useless anyways. I have my own suite of repair tools that I use for my business and they're great. Perhaps if you play your cards right NN, I'll give 'em to ya. Now that I'm no longer in Washington. :lol
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 05, 2009, 04:45:18 PM: I never manually used Checkdisk. The only time it runs is when it detects an error (not sure what causes these errors) and it runs automatically, which I let it do anyway since it never takes long to finish on this computer. But other than that, I don't use Checkdisk.
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 05, 2009, 05:02:13 PM: It makes some people feel comfortable if they check their computers manually every now and then. What they don't realize is how little something like CHKDSK can do. Yup. If you want to check your disks, you'd be much better off using another program.
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on March 05, 2009, 05:16:05 PM: I have SpinRite, but it doesn't work with this drive for some reason. It works on the other one, no idea why.

EDIT: At the very least, my data is safe for now. Yeah, this is weird.
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: Petrie. on March 05, 2009, 06:21:24 PM: Even ActiveHardDisk Monitor can check for stuff and is probably far more useful.
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: NeptuneNavigator2001 on March 05, 2009, 08:22:12 PM: Ah, thank you. I will look into it...
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: action9000 on March 05, 2009, 08:39:14 PM: Quote from: Petrie,Mar 5 2009 on 03:21 PM
Even ActiveHardDisk Monitor can check for stuff and is probably far more useful.
That sounds like something I could put to good use. Thanks for mentioning it, Adam.
Title: More computer problems...
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 05, 2009, 09:20:12 PM: Quote
Even ActiveHardDisk Monitor can check for stuff and is probably far more useful.

I tried that program. Wasn't too impressed, but you are right. It's much better than CHKDSK. I'd rather have that program by my side than CHKDSK any day.