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Hi
My HD seems to be experiencing some problems. About a month ago XP suddenly
stopped starting, It would get to the XP logo screen then just black screen.
I tried to run XP repair console but it wouldnt allow me admin rights even
though it didnt ask for password although it did run CHKDSK and reported one
or more unrecoverable problems?? It also seemed to be unable to see OS on HD
from cd setup and wouldnt give option to repair only to install XP and it
just showed empty partition instead of OS.
So I just installed XP and formatted with a fresh OS this lasted about 2
weeks until the same thing happened again, XP wouldn't start and wouldnt
appear in setup to repair. It was like there was no OS on notebook but this
time I could see that the partition size was 38155 MB and there was 29855 MB
free space so the files were still there. Again CHKDSK said one or more
unrecoverable problem.
So I though perhaps I could create a partition just for OS and Apps away
from bad sectors (I'm presuming this is what CHKDSK is trying to tell me)
and keep my files seperate.
BUT XP setup would only formatted my basic 8000 MB partition to 95% and no
further so I thought I'd create another partition of 12000 MB and format
that instead but setup would always attempt to format the 8000 MB partition
first resulting in nothing happening after it reached the 95% again. So I
removed the partitions and tried to format the 38 gig drive but format now
reached 20% of this before stopping (well didn't stop but wouldn't format
any more)
So I concluded that 95% of 8 gig and 20% of 38 gig is where the problem is
occuring so I slightly reduced the size of partition to 7gig and it
formatted no problems.
Then I installed XP and used disk management to create a 30 gig partition in
the unallocated space left. However I still cannot get this to format or
even error check from inside XP.
Does anyone know how I may make use of the remaining 32 gig of HD I have?
And since it is less than 18 months old will HP give warranty on HD?
Regards
Gary
Hi
My HD seems to be experiencing some problems. About a month ago XP suddenly
stopped starting, It would get to the XP logo screen then just black screen.
I tried to run XP repair console but it wouldnt allow me admin rights even
though it didnt ask for password although it did run CHKDSK and reported one
or more unrecoverable problems?? It also seemed to be unable to see OS on HD
from cd setup and wouldnt give option to repair only to install XP and it
just showed empty partition instead of OS.
So I just installed XP and formatted with a fresh OS this lasted about 2
weeks until the same thing happened again, XP wouldn't start and wouldnt
appear in setup to repair. It was like there was no OS on notebook but this
time I could see that the partition size was 38155 MB and there was 29855 MB
free space so the files were still there. Again CHKDSK said one or more
unrecoverable problem.
So I though perhaps I could create a partition just for OS and Apps away
from bad sectors (I'm presuming this is what CHKDSK is trying to tell me)
and keep my files seperate.
BUT XP setup would only formatted my basic 8000 MB partition to 95% and no
further so I thought I'd create another partition of 12000 MB and format
that instead but setup would always attempt to format the 8000 MB partition
first resulting in nothing happening after it reached the 95% again. So I
removed the partitions and tried to format the 38 gig drive but format now
reached 20% of this before stopping (well didn't stop but wouldn't format
any more)
So I concluded that 95% of 8 gig and 20% of 38 gig is where the problem is
occuring so I slightly reduced the size of partition to 7gig and it
formatted no problems.
Then I installed XP and used disk management to create a 30 gig partition in
the unallocated space left. However I still cannot get this to format or
even error check from inside XP.
Does anyone know how I may make use of the remaining 32 gig of HD I have?
And since it is less than 18 months old will HP give warranty on HD?
Regards
Gary