Defrag Causing Hard Drive Crash
Apr 21, 2009
I have windows XP, and a dell insiprion 6000. The last three times I have ran a defraged my hard drive it has become bad. After running my computer would act normal untill i shut it off, then windows xp would not load again. I get a blank screen with a blinking dash in the top left of the screen. They have been under replaced for free by seagate so i am wondering. Have i had bad luck with hard drives or could there be a problem with other parts of my computer?
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Aug 9, 2005
I have just installed a new Seagate SATA 200GB hard drive (ST3200822AS) and partitioned and formatted it with Partition Magic 8.0 into 3 separate logical
partitions. The partitions have a cluster size of 8K and are under the NTFS 3.1 (Windows XP) file system.
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Aug 8, 2005
I have just installed a new Seagate SATA 200GB hard drive (ST3200822AS) and partitioned and formatted it with Partition Magic 8.0 into 3 separate logical
partitions. The partitions have a cluster size of 8K and are under the NTFS 3.1 (Windows XP) file system.
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Jul 10, 2005
My computer's been experiencing loss of power whenever I use a program that requires the CD-ROM. It doesn't crash right away - I can run the program for 20-30 minutes before the computer loses power. The screen goes black, the fan disengages, and the whole thing simply shuts down immediately. The crash seems to be just a loss of power, as the system log doesn't record any errors and when I press the power button on the computer after a crash, Windows XP Pro starts up normally.
I've tried replacing the external power cable but it didn't solve the problem. CHKDSK doesn't find any errors on the drive and it's a relatively new hard drive, about 2 months old. My antivirus, which is up-to-date, can't find any viruses either. I'm sure it's a hardware problem, but what part is faulty? Could a power connector to the CD-ROM cause the entire computer to crash, even?
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Oct 1, 2008
i have 2 hard drives in my system h/d 1 is 40 gb and holds windows xp and few applications, h/d 2 is 15 gb and holds all my games. i am going to ureplace h/d 2 with a larger h/d (80 gb), my question is can i copy my games over to the new hard drive and remove h/d 2 without causing system problems/comflicts or should i just uninstall my games and reinstall them onto my new h/d (80 gb).
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Sep 11, 2009
I have an Acer Aspire notebook, w/ 37 gig hard drive partitioned into two drives. D (backup, archive) is 98% empty. C (everything else) is91% full. Windows NT will not let me defragment the heavily fragmented C partition for lack of minimum 15% free space on the drive. How can I go in and reasign the drive sizes, without dumping everything and reformating? I'm handy with a power tool, but computers frustrate me.
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Jan 23, 2008
Defrag this won't defrag right, and it's on my hard drive. Is this something that needs fixing?
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Jan 5, 2010
I needed to do a clean install so backed up all my files to a slave hard drive using the windows XP File and Settings transfer wizard. Went on to do a clean install and then started to import the files back (To the same Win XP operating system they were exported from The UNC file F.A.S.T created is a whopping 89 gig in size
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Oct 31, 2007
My Dell 4600 is a Pentium 4, 3.00 GHz with 1536MB RAM and uses WindowsXP SP2 with 90% free space. I've just started having error messages: "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and must close." This is very annoying. I did print out one dialog box: "Error signature AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: hpswp_selection.dll ModVer: 2.15.7.0 Offset: 000246b8.
From the ModName description above, it would seem to be associated with HP; and the only thing different re my pc is that yesterday I installed an HP C7250 all-in-one printer and did the recommended software installation as I do scan and fax in addition to copying, printing, and photos. What can I do to eliminate these error messages? Hopefully, there will be an easy fix.
I was hesitant to get another HP printer as I've had several. The first all-in-one was great and lasted about 5 years; the last 3 were not so good and were all replacements for the first with each successive A-I-O having problems of its own. Would you suggest that I uninstall the HP software, return the printer, and get a new Canon? However, I've read messages that users are frequently unhappy with Canon's ink-guzzling, expensive ink cartridges.
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Mar 12, 2008
When saving a jpg image in Firefox, Firefox crashes and closes without warning. When viewing a folder full of pictures in Windows Explorer, Explorer crashes and closes in about 10 seconds (it varies). This is even when viewing the files without thumbnails (Detailed list view). I have removed Thumbs.db from this folder. I have run chkdsk /F on all partitions in my computer. This folder that is causing the Explorer crash is on a FAT32 partition. chkdsk found no errors on the FAT32 partition, but fixed something in the NTFS partition.
Even though only one folder seems to be causing Explorer to crash, it seems that no matter where I save images in Firefox, Firefox still crashes. I scanned for viruses a bit. I ran Free AVG on the entire computer. I also ran Trend Micro Housecall from the browser. No threats were found. I am using Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and all the latest updates on a Gateway MT3419 laptop.
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Dec 9, 2005
Outlook 2003 has been crashing on me, sometimes immediately, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes when I try to drag a message to a folder... I get the "has encounterd an error and needs to close" popup, and can't do anything with the program, so I hit send report. If I have "restart Outlook 2003" checked, it crashes again immediatly upon opening, if I don't, and wait a little while to open it again, it will open, and download my mail, but then as soon as I try to do something, like delete an email or something, it crashes again. IE "soft-crashes" almost immediately every time I open the browser - by this I mean, I get the "has encountered an error and needs to close" popup, but I found that if i just drag the box down to the bottom off the screen, I can continue to browse just fine.
The details of the error report from the crash popup for explorer are:
AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: wininet.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.2753 Offset: 0001b810
technical details won't let me copy & paste it here. I found the administrative tools place to view events, this is what I see for the IE crashes: Faulting application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module wininet.dll, version 6.0.2900.2753, fault address 0x0001b810.............
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Mar 26, 2007
my 3 years old HP AMD 2.0 GHz laptop (Windows Home SP1, updated to SP2 and relatively well updated with security updates) suddenly crashed with a blue screen then could no longer boot up. I then successfully used the four "System Restore" CDs (that initially came with the laptop) to reinstall Windows XP Home SP1 (wiping out all files on the hard disk). I also installed Microsoft Office 2003, and downloaded and installed Mozilla Firefox and AdAware. The laptop then ran fine for a while, until I used Windows Update to install about 70 of the Important Updates recommended by Windows Update. Soon after, while surfing the internet, the laptop's fan got into high gear mode blowing much hot air, then I got the dreaded Blue Screen, and the laptop crashed and rebooted. All processes got started fine, and after a couple of minutes, total CPU usage settled down to around 1%, with the System Idle Process taking up 99% CPU. This time, I immediately started Task Manager to display all processes and their CPU usage.
With no application running, I kept watching for at least another 5 minutes, and saw a svchost.exe process suddenly appearing at the top of Task Manger's process list (ordered by CPU usage), hogging 98% of CPU usage, and driving the CPU hard into being overheated and another blue screen crash. After some searching and reading, I tried to download and run the recommended "Notebook Hardware Control" (NHC) program, and set the CPU Clock to "Maximum Battery" (for both battery and plugged in power) in the hope of slowing down the CPU Clock and avoiding overheating, and this did not help either. I then rebooted, and watched for this svchost.exe rogue to appear, and saw that the CPU temperature (as displayed by NHC) climbed quickly from 40 degrees C, to 50, then 60, then 75 - but when I then hastily used Task Manager's "End Process" command to kill the offending svchost.exe process, System Idle Process reclaimed 94% of CPU time, the CPU temperature quickly dropped back down eventually to around 40 degrees, and the laptop kept working fine without this svchost.exe system process. The problem is that this occurs regularly while I am using the laptop, and I cannot always react quickly enough to NHC's warning about rising CPU temperature in order to kill the svchost.exe, and therefore would get a crash every 15 or 20 minutes, interrupting my work. Is there any solution I can try?
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Feb 24, 2008
I installed xp version 5.1 on my pc today after a hard drive crash and I have a few questions.explain it like your telling a 5 year old Do I need the SP2. I tried my best to find out if I had it and I don't think I do. The PC has a nvidia geforce 4200 video card and I don't think the pc is using it. How do I check.
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Feb 18, 2006
i have a comaq presario computer with win 2k. Due to a virus ,my hard drive crashed . When i try and boot up i get the blue screen of death telling me there is an error and i need to consult manufacturer . Is there a way i can restore my hard drive and get my files on there back even though the hard drive has crashed, if so can you tell me the steps.
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Jan 8, 2006
My hard drive crashed beyond salvage. I bought a new hard drive, installed it and used my recovery disks to get the basics back. It is a Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-Gr390, to be specific). It has Windows XP, pre SP1/SP2. When I installed it, I went through the formatting process and formatted it for the first time, being that it's a new HD. Everything worked as expected, but I have yet to update anything because I can not successfully connect to the Internet.
All efforts to create a connection were unsuccessful.Next to my laptop is a slow Dell desktop, runnung a fully updated XP operating system. Using the same cable modem, connection to the Internet was fine with the desktop for both wired and wireless, but not the newly formatted laptop. My ethernet jack and wireless card on the laptop are working (according to the device manager).
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Sep 2, 2005
I've looked at it infrequently, and never could understand what I saw, but today there was something relatively new and scary:...Further info under help and support said an error was detected during a paging file operation. The word "disk" scared me, so I checked the entire Event Viewer, and found 25 of these errors, from Aug 1 2005 through Sep 3 2005. If this event was cataloged earlier, I don't know, because the Event Viewer only goes back to Aug 1. I checked System Restore for Aug 1, 2005 and found a couple of things; 1) an accidental MS "update" to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX driver 5.12 -- but we've had the 6.1.7.7 driver for a long time now. The 5.12 screws up the display resolution, big time. I reinstalled the 6.17; resolution is fine; but I'm wondering if this could have something to do with the Event 51 warning. Also, on that same date, something called Software Distribution Service 2.0 is listed three times, and I don't know why. I don't even know what it is. I've researched the web, and can't find anything that seems to apply -- other than potential for a hard drive crash. Just what I don't need. Meanwhile, the entire system is working extremely well; fast and smooth; no glitches or twitches that I can detect
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Mar 23, 2006
I'm running Windows XP sp2. Problem is, my C drive fills up. I have removed all but the latest restore point, reduced the max amount of restore point storage to 5%, and removed all of the programs that I don't use very often, moved all of my files to the D drive, clean the cache and remove cookies regularly, and use disk cleanup a lot. After all of this, I only have 1.25GB left in C drive. Not even enough space left to defrag the drive. Anyone have any suggestions? Before long I won't have ANY programs left. I don't use a TV card or anything like that, although I do have the capability to record but never use it.
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Jul 5, 2005
I have something causing a bad memory leak, completely fills my C drive usually overnight, every single byte. Is strange because I cant find a single file large enough. Have over 6 Gig space after a reboot, 0 bytes after about 24 - 36 hours, then back to 6 Gig after a reboot. Checked the windows page file and that's not at 6 gig when my HD is full.Virus scan and usual spyware cleaners come up clean.
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Aug 5, 2006
I have an Insignia D400A, 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB Video Memory running Windows XP Home SP2.
I was curious if I could defrag my hard disk while I am listening to music using iTunes. I only have one hard disk and all the music is on that hard disk.
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Jan 19, 2005
Defrag runs for 2-3 minutes maybe and the computer freezes or defrag stalls. I have checked for viruses. I have run defrag in safe mode.
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Aug 16, 2007
I run systemworks o n two computers. Both have XP media center edition.It works fine on the desktop but my laptop it defrags very little. I ususally get the desktop down below 2 percent fragmentation in one try, while my laptop rarely get below 4 percent fragmentation. about a fourth of the time it actually ends up more fragmented after running speed disk.
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Mar 18, 2007
C: Drive and it just filled up fragmented files to 95%. I've moved the pagefile to its own drive and added 4gigs more to almost 20 gigs on C. Here's what I did that may or may not have something to do with it. Yesterday I resized the drive that C is on and made four partitions each one for a particular person so that the files didn't get mixed.I used Norton Partition Magic and at the end of each task a window would pop up stating that I should make a new rescue disk
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Dec 16, 2007
Win xp pro, pen 4, norton antivirus, Win firewall. After I downloaded and installed Windows Live Messenger the defrag process wouldn't defrag all the files. I reformatted my computer without WLM and defragging was not a problem, worked like a charm. So, I downloaded and installed WLM again, and lo and behold the same problem occurred, the defrag program would not defrag all the files. I uninstalled WLM and defrag process still wouldn't defrag all the files. How do I solve this problem of not being able to defrag all of my files without reformatting my computer.
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Mar 5, 2010
I have a Dell computer where one of the loading .dll files came up 'missing' one day, so it won't boot. I want to get all the photos and other docs off the hard drive. I had downloaded one version of linux and was able to see the files on the internal hard drive, but was unable to copy them to a memory stick or external hard drive. Now I've downloaded ubuntu and booted off a memory stick... this time, it's telling me that the internal hard drive has all kinds of bad sectors and won't let me access any of the files on there.
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My laptop died and I removed the hard drive.i hooked the hard drive up to my new laptop via a SATA/IDE cable.
I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive.
My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
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Apr 17, 2006
When trying to install farstone virtual drive on a computer it reboots during the driver installation phase. After the reboot at the desktop windows says new hardware found and asks to install it. It's the offending driver, fcdabios. Windows installs it and says it was installed successfully. Then the computer spontaneously reboots again. It seems to start alright back at the desktop but again reboots after 2 minutes. The only cure is to do a restore from a norton ghost image. I sent a debug file to farstone but haven't received a reply yet.
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Oct 13, 2009
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Dec 5, 2007
using XP. am having wild swings in my hard drive space go from 46.1 to 44.1 and sometimes in between. have not installed any new programs recently. what could be causing it and how do i correct also am noticing my laptop as slowed appreciablydo know whether the two problems are correlated
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Jul 2, 2008
i have a Compaq nx 7400 .i was hahving a lot of problems with the computer so i decided to put a new hard drive in and reinstall XP .
well i have the new hard drive in and started up the machine and changed the bott options to run from the dvd and all went fine until i should press the ENTER ( return ) button to install XP now . as soon as i did that the next window said no hard drive found . this was also happening on the old hard drive that was in the machine .
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I'm getting a random blue screen crash and was wondering if anyone could give it a shot. It's a 0x00000050 crash, Heres the crash dump file.
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Oct 13, 2008
I had this idea, see if anybody has an opinion about this. My wife has an old XP computer I want to buy her a new one but she doesn't like the vista and she wants to keep the old xp operating system. What I want to do is take the old hard drive and put it in the new computer as the master and take the new hard drive and put it in as the slave erasing the vista off it. Then using the master slave way can I transfer the xp operating system and all her files and data from the old hard drive to the new one.
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