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ScanDisk and CHKDSK will not complete Don Phillipson 03-22-2008
Posted by Don Phillipson on March 22, 2008, 3:13 pm
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 Problem is ultraslow function of a Dell PC under WinXP (SP2).
ScanDisk of C:\ would not complete
and I was surprised to see its parent console appeared to
report one small FAT32 drive (no drive letter) 30 Mb
normal drive C: NTFS about 38 Gb.
I do not know what the unlettered drive is supposed to be,
possibly an artifact of either the Dell preinstal process or
Norton security system. I have disabled Norton (as likely
to interfere with diagnosis and cleanup.)

DOS CHKDSK /F reports
1. Fixed 2 corrupt attribute records.
2. Cannot continue in read-only mode.

What does this mean? MS KB seems no help at all
(finds only two instances of "read-only," both related to
removable storage devices, not to fixed hard drives.)

Does this point to either defective OS or malware?
What is the most functional safe AV/shield software for a Dell
XP PC? The user has cable Internet but is not a keen browser
or game player.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)



Posted by David H. Lipman on March 22, 2008, 3:26 pm
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| Problem is ultraslow function of a Dell PC under WinXP (SP2).
| ScanDisk of C:\ would not complete
| and I was surprised to see its parent console appeared to
| report one small FAT32 drive (no drive letter) 30 Mb
| normal drive C: NTFS about 38 Gb.
| I do not know what the unlettered drive is supposed to be,
| possibly an artifact of either the Dell preinstal process or
| Norton security system. I have disabled Norton (as likely
| to interfere with diagnosis and cleanup.)
|
| DOS CHKDSK /F reports
| 1. Fixed 2 corrupt attribute records.
| 2. Cannot continue in read-only mode.
|
| What does this mean? MS KB seems no help at all
| (finds only two instances of "read-only," both related to
| removable storage devices, not to fixed hard drives.)
|
| Does this point to either defective OS or malware?
| What is the most functional safe AV/shield software for a Dell
| XP PC? The user has cable Internet but is not a keen browser
| or game player.
|

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic
software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is
bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp



Posted by Volodymyr M. Shcherbyna on March 25, 2008, 3:41 pm
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Sounds like the begining of the end of your hdd ...

--
V.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> Problem is ultraslow function of a Dell PC under WinXP (SP2).
> ScanDisk of C:\ would not complete
> and I was surprised to see its parent console appeared to
> report one small FAT32 drive (no drive letter) 30 Mb
> normal drive C: NTFS about 38 Gb.
> I do not know what the unlettered drive is supposed to be,
> possibly an artifact of either the Dell preinstal process or
> Norton security system. I have disabled Norton (as likely
> to interfere with diagnosis and cleanup.)
>
> DOS CHKDSK /F reports
> 1. Fixed 2 corrupt attribute records.
> 2. Cannot continue in read-only mode.
>
> What does this mean? MS KB seems no help at all
> (finds only two instances of "read-only," both related to
> removable storage devices, not to fixed hard drives.)
>
> Does this point to either defective OS or malware?
> What is the most functional safe AV/shield software for a Dell
> XP PC? The user has cable Internet but is not a keen browser
> or game player.
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
>
>



Posted by Delta on April 4, 2008, 4:53 am
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Let Windows do a chkdsk at boot OR do that while in safe mode.


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