YIKES!!! Is my hard drive about to die on me?

[Stormfury]

Well recently I've been having some computer problems. Just starting this week my computer will re-start right out of the blue. At first I was like meh, that sucks some program must have crashed. Now though I'm getting these corrupt file errors:

The file or directory \Documents and Settings\My Name Here\ Local Settings\ Temporary Internet Files\Content.IES\Toozxhox is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.

The file or directory \WINDOWS\Prefetch\IExplore.exe-27122324.pf is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.

Both those files have something to do with IExplorer, so I don't know, maybe it's just a problem with explorer. The reason why I suspect the HD is because the thing is ancient. 6 years old or something like that.... so yeah I'm kind of clueless. Thanks for the help.

RA-RA

 

[Mr5oh]

Just becuase your hard drive is 6 years old doesn't mean it is about to die. Have you thought about trying a fresh windows install? Are you sure you don't have some sort of virus/spyware running, as its strange that it picked IE files instead of random ones. I can't imagine your hard drive haveing something against IE.

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[Coyote]

Looks to me like you D/L some crap. Run your AV proggie and adaware and spybot too.

6 yrs is a pretty long time for a HD these days. But I got one going on 11 yrs- it's an 865MB that use in an email box.

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Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
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BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[Stormfury]

Well mates, I ran Spybot v1.3 and Ad-Aware SE. A lot of tracking cookies and two possible web browser hijackings were detected. Could that hijacking installed a program which is causing the restarts and corrupt files?

 

[sjonnie]

That's fine, don't worry. When the computer crashed it just lost track of some of the cached files it was writing at the time. Just run chkdsk c: /f. It will ask you to schedule the program to run at next boot up. Do that and it should fix it.

If your BSOD keep occuring check out what is causing them in Event Viewer, there should be an entry there stating what the error was.

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