disk errors

Last year when check disk was run automatically on startup it repaired a ton of errors and then this week when check disk again ran automatically again it said that an unexpected error occured and it was not able to lock the drive and told that it may be because of a resent software installation...

Hi, i have a Fujitsu mhv2060ah 60GB with a S.M.A.R.T problem and it says the imminent something doesn't work or something like that. The way im guessing this happened was that i plugged this hard drive into another laptop and then plugged it into the original laptop and just saying it i did...

3 yr old Dell won't self-repair, allow me to restore to a recovery point or use a recovery CD. The testing I did indicated a corrupt registry and some disk error codes. (No new software installations/removals but there was a critical update pushed 7/2.) Frustrated that I can't get it back...

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Microsoft phone help and geek squad both didnt know what was wrong... computer goes through the initial 5 phases of installing windows and then states it will restart in 10 seconds and counts down and restarts... from here it restarts and I get a black screen with blinking cursor and once I...

I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...

Evening all, First time poster so I don't know whether this is the right section in the forum or not. My trusty 620 laptop has been with me for nearly 2 years now and has never let me down, it gets a lot of use since I am a teenager and I'm constantly on social networking sites, listening...

First: A little Information: Full Article @ Microsoft Offering Improved CHKDSK Utility in Windows 8 -- Redmondmag.com Tutorial for running CHKDSK: There are 2 options to running CHKDSK (Check Disk) in Windows 8 Option #1: Run CHKDSK from "My Computer" 1. Open "My Computer" either from...

Hi, my system is: Dell XPS 420 Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 8GB RAM @ 667MHz Bios A07 Windows 7 home premium 64 (SP 1) 2 x 256GB hitatchi drives in RAID 0 this system was purchased in 2009 and has not been upgraded with new hardware (apart from RAM immediately after purchase). I have recently experienced...

Fixes an issue in which the files that were added during the previous session are missing from a CD-RW disc on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you add some new files to the disc. Link Removed

Win 7 x64,i5,6GB, msie 9 I have tried 4 brands of cds to create a repair disc>Start, security,backup my computer,create repair disc. The disc burns but after F12 for boot order, nothing appears. I tried the os disc>repair but it says to contact the manufacturer. I tried F8 repair which said to...

The blue screen A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer I also get this messege when I try other options: Problem signature: Problem Event name : StartupRepairOffline Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 02...

I have for several weeks recently been plagued by BSOD's which randomly attributed the cause to different culprits. Early in the events the graphics driver was fingered and I spent good money on returning my costly graphics card under warranty for checking. It came back with a clean bill of...

No changes were made since last boot. Attempted to follow instructions posted here: windows 7 bootmgr is missing-- resolved using WinRE - Microsoft Answers Method 1: Message states a fix was made.Root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action...

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 I've been running a copy of Auslogic's BootSpeed for over a month now. I have to say that the software works well and doesn't cause any problems. In addition to the normal functions like scanning the registry and looking for junk files it has built in apps to clean up and configure your...

I have an HP dv6-2155dx and purchased a new HD just like what came out actually a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM SATA new HD. I turned it off and put disk 1 in the drive and turned it on. It loads windows and asks for each of the 3 disk but no luck from there. When it restarts it goes to the black...

Hello My PC has decided to do a check disk every time it boots up, can anyone please assist with finding what is causing it.

I have Dell Inspiron 580s, which is 5 months old. I recovered the factory setting using the recovery CD i had created after the purchase. Now i am only able to see the C drive which has the OS and other partition (which has the data which I don't want to lose) is not shown. When I go to disk...

Hi all. :o I'm facing some problems with my C drive. Errors were said to be found in C drive during Error checking. However, I could not auto fix system errors when C drive is in use. Thus I've assigned a chkdsk upon start up. Here's the catch, the Chkdsk appeared for a sec and was...