One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency

Just found this, it's worth reading:

http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=59&front_id=12

See reference to heat; my take is this is mechanical.

Might you, if you don't have an external drive handy, consider online remote backup/storage until you can replace the drive?

And this article reiterated what I posted earlier.....all these bigtime diagnostics, including within Windows, stress the drive. I think we do not wanna do that right now.

 

One more....re the put the puppy in the fridge thingy....have read about this before, but I do not know anyone who has done that, if it's safe, and I would want expert feedback on that part.

But shutting down the system and letting it cool for half and hour can't hurt.

 

Another afterthought: my version of Astra, which is old, in the left pane of the interface, toward the bottom, has option to give more info about the HDDS. When you choose that you get very basic assessment re health good, not so hot, poor, etc. Very limited...SpeedFan trumps this in every way, but I thought I would share that in case you didn.t see & employ it.

You also get the temp.

 

ONE MORE afterthought, I am worried now so this is in the HDD in my brain:

Do I understand correctly that the troubled disk, D, is the one on which you have all your personal files but not your OS? So disk D is not bootable, right?

Nor its contents backed up anywhere?

 

OK last one, I gotta work...i just found this:

http://www.idrive.com/?refer=google&gclid=CLX1__W5hJ8CFVFM5Qoddh8Lng

With the free version, you only get 2GBs as you do with some Mozy thing I also saw.....but, if you could spend five dollars and backup yr D drive, given it's small, wouldn't that be worth it until you replace that drive?????

 

Yes you are right.

 

As I thought. Zillah, you gotta save or back all the files on that drive up. From everything you have shared, from yr Speedfan report, my take is the drive is failing. They do, after all....and some, I read, in a far shorter time than in this case.

It has already gone thru some crisis and apparently...recovered from iy,. however briefly, in ways I do not get and neither does Speedfan. It is running over 10 degrees hotter than is normal or safe. You were lucky enough to be warned by Windows sumthing is wrong.

Again, please consider using the service I found and linked you to or one like it.

Cause if you go on running diagnostics which will further tax a wounded drive, the drive could crash and then you would have to go thru a great deal to get those files back.

I have no idea re the size of yr C drive....forget the extent to which is is occupied.

But if you have room on C, I might suggest you transfer yr most important files from yr D drive to it.

Whichever method you choose....please save or backup those files.

 

Zillah, when Arie suggested your System Details should be posted, he meant you to enter through User CP (upper left of screen).
Jilly, I use Belarc Advisor and Everest Ultimate Edition which will give ALLthe info about the internals in your comp. Cheers Neil.

 

Thanks, Neil, I will soon get both of those.! I love new apps!

I just want him to back up his files now, cause that drive is going.

 

I see thanks for let me know and thanks for Arie as well

 

Same to me.

For sure I will take that in consideration

Many thanks Jilly

 

I hope! You now have the precious option of acting to preserve your files before the drive fails altogether.

I run the Speedfan instant results, no stress to the drive test on friends' systems I am asked to diagnose and try to put right.

I have never seen a report like the one it generated for your D drive re the part at the top even Speedfan said was Very Unusual re the drive getting into serious trouble and then, by some miracle getting out of it. However briefly.

Rolling dice is, I guess, OK in casinos, if not my thing at all....but with the files on this unwell drive? And remember, in the above, the house always wins.

I hope you report back

And NOW, you have THREE apps all of which should give you all the data you need re posting your system specs.
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Addendum:

Just noticed you joined this site in 05. Am I right in surmising you were then on the same system you are posting about now?

If so, were you using the same D drive then? BEFORE THEN?
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I see in Nov of 05 when you joined, you posted saying you had two USB external HDDs. Was that your work computer or this one?

You posted you backed up your files employing these ongoing. Are you still? Should I be having to research this and then ask? lol

 

Hi Jilly

I appreciate your help and efforts, thanks for that.

Now to answer your questions

That was different PC,,,,my current system is new system (CPU and motherboard and VGA ) only hard drive is pretty old , I have got from 2003 (it is only 40 GB).

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No it not same this system is totally different from the one that I have posted in 2005.


Thanks

 

Hi, again, Zillah,

Thanks for the above; it's always a privilege to help---try to--but in this, I confess I feel leetle frustrated.

Next, you have still to post your system specs which you have been asked to do. If you use any of the 3 apps you've been told about, any one of them should bring up all the info you've been asked for, esp since this now doesn't sound like a commercial computer, but I am not even certain of that.

Drives have individual llfe expectancies determined by many variables. Accounts on the net give average=5 years, but it is far more drive specific than that.

But yr D drive question is old; it appears, has seen much use, and is, just from the Speedfan report NOT IN GOOD SHAPE AT ALL

Final time: I think you must back up your files. I do not see why, if you have the external HDDS you posted about in 05, or other ones, you can't simply use one to copy the contents of the sick drive to. OR, AGIAN, briefly employ an online service. IS there a reason???

You say this is a new CPU and mobo. Maybe the board supports SATA connectivity. This is why people are asking you to POST YR SPECS, Zillah.

Final time: complex drive diagnostics STRESS DRIVES. If some of the issues here are mechanical as I believe, then we must get the priorities straight, yes?

Please share if you are following up on the backup, and final time, please post the specs on this system.

Then, you can solicit recommendations for replacing the drive based on yr system specs.

Also, struck me this might be an issue in this dragging on: please share what your experience/comfort level is re opening the box and say, pulling and replacing a drive. If this is unfamiliar to you, it is easier than you may realize and nothing to be afraid of.

People here will walk you thru it should you need help.

You can still get new IDE drives, including small ones. And, there are dozens of 'pulls," all makers, on eBay, many under $15. Often, you can get a good one if you check out the vendor and his/her feedback. The reliable vendors test them.

 

I haven't read the whole thread. If you want to scan the D: drive with CHKDSK, you will need to enter
chkdsk D: /r
[drive D: is a separate HDD]