bad sectors

Need help in one help. i received one error msg in my windows 7 hdd. "your HDD is about to crash, pls starts a backup process". i ran the tool of error checking & bad sector repairing from HDD properties, did AV checking. but no result. any one have any solution pls help. Regards SuvankarLink...

Hi, okay, so after booting my PC earlier today Windows System Maintenance started up without prompting and after a while had this to say: Attempt repairs of disk volume errors Reboot computer to repair volume problems such as bad sectors, lost clusters, cross-linked files, and directory...

Hi all, So I've been trouble shooting my laptop over the last year or so, going over different threads and speaking with support professionals (some of which are personal friends of mine). Many of the problems I was having have been resolved, however I still occassionally get a BSoD error that...

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Can anyone please help me. I have a Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit operating system and I am experiencing unexpected shutdowns of the system. This tends to occur mainly when doing a virus check or doing a back up using some software called SyncBackSE. I have tried looking at the event log but...

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a very strange and annoying problem. Specifically around 1,5 month ago my netbook turned itself off because of the empty battery, and i received a bluescreen when i've tried to start it again. First thing i've attempted to do was startup repair (worked like a...

Have been using W7 for a couple of months - last night it decided to reboot and will not complete the reboot. Tried to repair using the W7 tools without success. I ran Sea tools and it found 4 bad sectors and fixed them. No change so far. It still will not start and go to the desktop. The...

As the title says, when I restart my laptop (acer aspire 3810t, upgraded from Vista 32-bit to 7 64-bit) files that have been recently edited/accessed will still be on the hard drive, although appear as 0 bytes (I'm not sure whether they are still using the same space on the disk as the problem...

Hello guys, Im back again with other BSOD :( So, continuing my last thread Link Removed I finally RMA'd my RAMs and as soon as I got it back, I did memtest to them. It was fine, the RAMs were all healthy and I was smiling. But then, after like, a week, my OS corrupted, so I reinstalled it...

Hi im so confused! I installed W7 on my laptop this time last year everything was fine till I started to get clicking sounds on my HDD and sometimes causing laptop to freeze. I just ignored it as it only happened about 4 months in and only a few times..but then in June the HDD packed up...

Some of the most simple commands in Windows often go overlooked. Determine how to repair and fix your hard drive from within Windows. Determine if there is a problem with the hard disk in the form of file system corruption or bad sectors (disk errors). Analyze or export this data to make an...

Hi there! This is really annoying me now. I recently installed Windows 7 and now when I open a folder containing wav files explorer jumps up to 50 to 80 CPU usage. The folder contains wav music files because I am converting them from 320 mp3, and FLAC to use in Ableton Live, which is a...

I'm having troubles with my system and can't figure out the cause. After a several trials with this system I started up completely from scratch. I'm having an Asus Motherboard M2A VM HDMI, running well and installed the latest BIOS to be sure that this couldn't give me any troubles. 4 Gb...

I just got a new i7 with windows 7 64 bit on it yesterday. Everything was slow, and I figured out why, but don't really understand why, or what I can do to keep it from happening in the future. Yesterday I attached it to an external NTFS drive that had a bunch of bad sectors, copied over...

Hey everybody. So the full error code in blue screen after booting (after win7 loading logo) is: Had the autocheck bad boy as well: Eliminated it via registry. So, pretty much only 0xc000003a is left. Also, autocheck as I understand is just an indicator of a problem rather than a cause...

Once I restart my computer-Suddently The partition D was invisible. I gues it's because of bad sektors. There are many softs for XP to solve this like active partition recovery, partition disk doctor and so on, but I couldn't find any soft for win 7! Do I need to instal WINDOWS XP as secound...

Hi, I recently did error checking and checked automatically fix file and system errors and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors and hit start more than once and it scheduled and so next time i started up it ran it. And it fixed all my problems but i had start or whatever more than...

Hello, I have a HP G60 418CA laptop. The laptop came with Vista Premium, but I upgraded it to Windows 7 professional. After I upgraded it, I noticed that every three four days, when starting the computer, it runs Disk Consistency Check. I am sure I didn't restart the computer improperly. And I...

I've posted this on a couple other forums but I haven't gotten a helpful response yet so here goes nothing: Problem description: I connected my 80GB iPod Video to my netbook and Windows 7 came up asking me if I wanted to scan and fix problems on my iPod. I foolishly said okay and told it to...

Take a look at the screenshot below. You'll see that it's of my RAID 0 set-up and was benched tonight (Saturday). The problem is that they won't complete a full chkdsk and always gets stuck on 50%. Now obviously I'm thinking one of the drives is about to give up although the benches show that...