Is my diagnosis correct?

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I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read anything else).

Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.

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"Roger Neilson" <didactylos@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:42da19d3$0$27227$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from the
> C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
> days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer started -
> form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
> anything to the autoruns at all.
>
> Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but if
> they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
> and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything done.
>
> I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
> problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the detail.
> When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
> reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was defraggged
> just afew weeks ago.
>
> I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any second
> opinions.
>
> Roger
>
>

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Start/run eventvwr.msc

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"rogerneilson" <didactylos@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Where do I find the event log?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roger
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
> news:%234TcJJriFHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after
> several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read
> anything else).
>
> Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.
>
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> "Roger Neilson" <didactylos@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:42da19d3$0$27227$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>>I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from
>>the
>> C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
>> days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer
>> started -
>> form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
>> anything to the autoruns at all.
>>
>> Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but
>> if
>> they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
>> and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything
>> done.
>>
>> I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
>> problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the
>> detail.
>> When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
>> reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was
>> defraggged
>> just afew weeks ago.
>>
>> I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any
>> second
>> opinions.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>
>

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To open the Event Viewer...
Start | Run | Type: eventvwr | Clcik OK

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Wes
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In news:42da4784$0$2892$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net,
rogerneilson <didactylos@bigfoot.com> hunted and pecked:
> Where do I find the event log?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roger
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
> news:%234TcJJriFHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I think you are probably right. A marginal sector, that can be read after
> several retries, in a system area (so it keeps needing to be read to read
> anything else).
>
> Your event log should be telling you the drive is about to fail.
>
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> "Roger Neilson" <didactylos@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:42da19d3$0$27227$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
>> I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from
>> the
>> C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
>> days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer
>> started -
>> form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
>> anything to the autoruns at all.
>>
>> Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but
>> if they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is
>> fragmented and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get
>> anything done.
>>
>> I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
>> problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the
>> detail.
>> When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
>> reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was
>> defraggged just afew weeks ago.
>>
>> I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any
>> second
>> opinions.
>>
>> Roger

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Roger Neilson wrote:

> I have a 2 hard disc system, Windows XP pro and most programmes run from the
> C Drive. A few, plus all my data run from the F drive. Over the last few
> days I have encountered a massive slowdown in getting the computer started -
> form certainly less than 5 minutes to over 20 minutes. I have not added
> anything to the autoruns at all.
>
> Programmes and data (eg music) run fine if they are on the F drive, but if
> they are on the C drive they run incredibly slowly so music is fragmented
> and at times its like trying to wade through treacle to get anything done.
>
> I have been getting crashes of the PC with a message about a kernel
> problem... but haven't yet copied all the data from that to get the detail.
> When it crashes the next boot reports a disc boot system failure, when i
> reboot ahgain it loads up but painfully slowly. The C drive was defraggged
> just afew weeks ago.
>
> I'm thinking the drive is about to pack up.... but would welcome any second
> opinions.
>
> Roger
>
>

How much free space do you have on c: ?

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"sf" <sf@gmail.com> wrote in message news:tf8md1tal6b1fm3itpv3ep1jqn15kt824d@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:37:14 -0400, Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>
>> Start/run eventvwr.msc
>
> How do we interpret this information? I seem to have errors since the
> day I got this computer, but it's working fine IMO.