data corruption

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...

Randomly my computer turned off. Turned it back on and when it goes Verifying DMI Pool Data it says "Disk error found". Figured it was an operating system flaw and and after repairing failed, I decided to reformat. When I try to reinstall Windows it comes up with "c:\boot\bootstat.dat is...

im brief, bought a new system, ran sweet for first month. started getting BSOD until got fed up and did a clean install. was fine for 1 week or so then start BSOD until one day i load windows and it said window 7 configuration data is corrupt please contact support. this is window 7 ultimate...

If an external USB HD is used for just backups is it really necessary to defrag it? I mean backups of pics movies etc where you are basically adding files. I've got one that has got messed us a few times and I suspect it may be the defrag. It's a WD My Book Pro II 1T. It showed a message drive...

As the title says, I am having issued with the indexing. It will index many e-mails, but get stuck at some number (currently, that number is 7,329) So i do "delete and rebuild index". the Indexing Options window freezes for a while, and then it unfreezes, with the status of "waiting to receive...

I'm running windows 7 (Release candidate) and I have a usb that is requesting a format and certain occurred as a result of the usb getting an electric shock. How? I had the usb plugged into my laptop while it was switched on and I plugged in an ethernet cable to the laptop. It happened as I...

When I boot up my PC, I get a window for Sticky Notes that reads as follows: "Meta Data for some of the notes has been corrupt. Sticky Notes has restored them to defaults. I click OK and Windows starts checking for a solution then tries to recover the data. It then tries to restart and the...

Hello, I heard that Windows 7 runs pretty good on systems a few years old, so I thought I'd give it a try for the heck of it on mine. I'd like to dual boot with XP, with XP still being the primary OS I use. At some point, whether it's a couple weeks later if I end up not liking it, or in March...