Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this article.
regarding the comment about replacing the hard drive and losing all your data, in the past i have installed the operating system on the new hard drive and then plugged in the "old" hard drive onto the secondary ribbon plug (setting jumper on HDD to slave) and resarted computer, then its just a simple matter of copy and paste onto the new drive. this obviously will not work for programs, but i managed to get documents, favourites, address book etc onto new drive... i did it this way as i did not have a writer at the time (maybe showing my age but cd writers were quite expensive then!) and old hard drive failed.
Posted by: Damin at July 9, 2007 11:01 PM
Same thing happened to me. Only thing I could do was take it to Comp USA for a fix. It cost me, and i never found out what it was. But it works fine now
Posted by: George Arauz at July 13, 2007 11:57 AM
Leo,
Here again, the most important thing to recommend is a good backup regimen. Once a hard drive is in serious trouble, SpinRite is an option, but certainly no guaratee. I bought a second hard drive specifically to hold my data backups (updated on a regular basis via SyncBack) and an image of my system partition (created and occasionally re-created via BootItNG). I know you've covered this subject elsewhere, but it always bears repeating.
Best regards always,
Bob
Posted by: Bob Seeley at July 13, 2007 8:59 PM
I had a 250gig hard drive on hand which I had
purchased for my desktop. Unable to use it, I got
the idea to buy one of those metal cases that
plugs into the back of a computer and put the
drive in there. It would work on my newer laptop.
When the hard drive on my desktop failed I thought
I'd lost everything. Then I got the idea to hook
the bad hard drive up with my laptop and there were
ALL of my files. I was able to transfer them over to the
250meg hard drive.
Posted by: Brandy Russell at July 14, 2007 12:20 AM
I had a similar problem recently. Chkdsk didn't fail but it would run every time I restarted my computer.
I have 2 hard drives and chkdsk would run on drive D:. I thought it was on its way out. But I noticed that it seemed to be trying to fix one file everytime it ran. I decided to fix the problem myself by deleting that file. It solved my problem.
I would recommend paying attention to the files being fixed. If you notice the same file(s) being fixed maybe that is where the problem lies.
www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/
Posted by: Terry Hollett at July 14, 2007 4:45 AM
What about Partition Magic? Can I use it to repair a section of a hard drive that Windows always want to check at boot time?
Posted by: Julio C Solar at December 3, 2007 5:46 PM
I have found that re-seating expansion cards
can be a very good first step.
Things seemingly unrelated can cause big problems
in the most unlikely ways.
Posted by: Johnny T at November 21, 2008 12:58 AM
I just bought a 1tb drive for $100. I backed up all of my family's data on it. Back-up often and you will save in aggravation and recovery software. You may find that all your most important data fits on a usb stick or DVD.
Posted by: Mark at April 16, 2009 5:05 AM
Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this article.
Comments
Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this article.
regarding the comment about replacing the hard drive and losing all your data, in the past i have installed the operating system on the new hard drive and then plugged in the "old" hard drive onto the secondary ribbon plug (setting jumper on HDD to slave) and resarted computer, then its just a simple matter of copy and paste onto the new drive. this obviously will not work for programs, but i managed to get documents, favourites, address book etc onto new drive... i did it this way as i did not have a writer at the time (maybe showing my age but cd writers were quite expensive then!) and old hard drive failed.
Posted by: Damin at July 9, 2007 11:01 PMSame thing happened to me. Only thing I could do was take it to Comp USA for a fix. It cost me, and i never found out what it was. But it works fine now
Posted by: George Arauz at July 13, 2007 11:57 AMLeo,
Posted by: Bob Seeley at July 13, 2007 8:59 PMHere again, the most important thing to recommend is a good backup regimen. Once a hard drive is in serious trouble, SpinRite is an option, but certainly no guaratee. I bought a second hard drive specifically to hold my data backups (updated on a regular basis via SyncBack) and an image of my system partition (created and occasionally re-created via BootItNG). I know you've covered this subject elsewhere, but it always bears repeating.
Best regards always,
Bob
I had a 250gig hard drive on hand which I had
Posted by: Brandy Russell at July 14, 2007 12:20 AMpurchased for my desktop. Unable to use it, I got
the idea to buy one of those metal cases that
plugs into the back of a computer and put the
drive in there. It would work on my newer laptop.
When the hard drive on my desktop failed I thought
I'd lost everything. Then I got the idea to hook
the bad hard drive up with my laptop and there were
ALL of my files. I was able to transfer them over to the
250meg hard drive.
I had a similar problem recently. Chkdsk didn't fail but it would run every time I restarted my computer.
I have 2 hard drives and chkdsk would run on drive D:. I thought it was on its way out. But I noticed that it seemed to be trying to fix one file everytime it ran. I decided to fix the problem myself by deleting that file. It solved my problem.
I would recommend paying attention to the files being fixed. If you notice the same file(s) being fixed maybe that is where the problem lies.
www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/
Posted by: Terry Hollett at July 14, 2007 4:45 AMWhat about Partition Magic? Can I use it to repair a section of a hard drive that Windows always want to check at boot time?
Posted by: Julio C Solar at December 3, 2007 5:46 PMI have found that re-seating expansion cards
Posted by: Johnny T at November 21, 2008 12:58 AMcan be a very good first step.
Things seemingly unrelated can cause big problems
in the most unlikely ways.
I just bought a 1tb drive for $100. I backed up all of my family's data on it. Back-up often and you will save in aggravation and recovery software. You may find that all your most important data fits on a usb stick or DVD.
Posted by: Mark at April 16, 2009 5:05 AMTo post a comment on "Chkdsk runs on every boot, but fails, and my system is unstable. What can I do?", please return to that article's main page.