bad sectors

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...