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Ok, here it is.. (hopefully you read this "long story" and not get borred with it..)
I just read some reviews today about good defragmentation utilz, and I have downloaded diskeeper 10 and defragmented my drive C (Wester Digital, RAPTOR @ 10.000RPM) and after defragmentation was finished, my system was very unstable. I first tought that, this is my RAM, (needet to reset) and wanted to restart my system to "clean" my RAM. After the reboot, when windows loaded, I oppened Windows Explorer, and I had part of many errors on my screen, like "Windows Explorer caused an error and needs to close.." and many more errors.
I got scared, and uninstalled this software (diskeeper 10) and prompted to do a CHKDSK (fix errors checked) and after I restarted to start the checking..it was done..I just couldn't believe what I saw. 8O I had many bad clusters, and CHKDSK recovered many of my files in my C drive. This checking took at least 40 minutes ( it never tooked that long before! Max 5 minutes for checking drive C!) Ok, and after this check has finished, windows went crazy. Many errors came up, many of my startup software didn't even started, it just came up with errors. Even my desktop image has changed - my jpeg background image now has 3 dots on the screen! The original jpeg image does NOT have those dots (I just checked to make sure)
What can this be ?
I need some advice, please! Is there any chance, that diskeeper 10 could cause all this ? If YES, is there any chance to "save" my hard-drive? *NOTE: This only happend today, after I installed diskeeper 10, and when I was running the defragmentation tool for drive C), or is my drive's time to leave me? :x My drive is 2 years old..so I don't know..
I was thinking..could this be a "error-reporting" of MS's CHKDSK, or are we really talking about bad clusters? COuld a format of this drive "fix" this problem? Can a software (in general) cause bad clusters? Cause, otherwise, I cannot explain this..and I am really messed up.
I would appreciate if I could get some help, how to fix this.
btw, my system specs (if this helps..): Intel P4 640, Asus p5wd2 MB, 2x512 Geil DDRII (533 Mhz) 1x Western Digital Raptor (with 3 partitions on it, and 1 of them is the C drive), 2x200GB Western Digital ata drives, Asus 6600GT GPU, Audigy 1 Audio, Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU, 1x CD-RW drive, 1x DVD-drive. (NOTE: my system is NOT, and was never overclocked before.) If there's anything I missed, please let me know.
Thank you in advance.
Rob.
Ok, here it is.. (hopefully you read this "long story" and not get borred with it..)
I just read some reviews today about good defragmentation utilz, and I have downloaded diskeeper 10 and defragmented my drive C (Wester Digital, RAPTOR @ 10.000RPM) and after defragmentation was finished, my system was very unstable. I first tought that, this is my RAM, (needet to reset) and wanted to restart my system to "clean" my RAM. After the reboot, when windows loaded, I oppened Windows Explorer, and I had part of many errors on my screen, like "Windows Explorer caused an error and needs to close.." and many more errors.
I got scared, and uninstalled this software (diskeeper 10) and prompted to do a CHKDSK (fix errors checked) and after I restarted to start the checking..it was done..I just couldn't believe what I saw. 8O I had many bad clusters, and CHKDSK recovered many of my files in my C drive. This checking took at least 40 minutes ( it never tooked that long before! Max 5 minutes for checking drive C!) Ok, and after this check has finished, windows went crazy. Many errors came up, many of my startup software didn't even started, it just came up with errors. Even my desktop image has changed - my jpeg background image now has 3 dots on the screen! The original jpeg image does NOT have those dots (I just checked to make sure)
What can this be ?
I need some advice, please! Is there any chance, that diskeeper 10 could cause all this ? If YES, is there any chance to "save" my hard-drive? *NOTE: This only happend today, after I installed diskeeper 10, and when I was running the defragmentation tool for drive C), or is my drive's time to leave me? :x My drive is 2 years old..so I don't know..
I was thinking..could this be a "error-reporting" of MS's CHKDSK, or are we really talking about bad clusters? COuld a format of this drive "fix" this problem? Can a software (in general) cause bad clusters? Cause, otherwise, I cannot explain this..and I am really messed up.
I would appreciate if I could get some help, how to fix this.
btw, my system specs (if this helps..): Intel P4 640, Asus p5wd2 MB, 2x512 Geil DDRII (533 Mhz) 1x Western Digital Raptor (with 3 partitions on it, and 1 of them is the C drive), 2x200GB Western Digital ata drives, Asus 6600GT GPU, Audigy 1 Audio, Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU, 1x CD-RW drive, 1x DVD-drive. (NOTE: my system is NOT, and was never overclocked before.) If there's anything I missed, please let me know.
Thank you in advance.
Rob.