Hi there readers,

Do I have a potentially bad Hard disk (every couple of weeks getting
errors such as:
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1.... during a paging
operation. "
in event viewer) ?

Also every once in a while, Windows goes into Chkdsk mode when booting,
for no apparent reason (I have a UPS). So, on my other Win2k computers
when this happens (usually after a user reset, for example) they go to
chkdsk, it finds no errors and then they continue to windows without
rebooting. I have seen it happen many times and it never gets stuck.
(thety have similar OS configuration, windows 2k SP4 installed in
default C:\ boot partition, Fat32 80GB etc)

But on this particular computer, Chkdsk doesn't find any errors but
never continues to windows, I must do another reset and hope it will
not want to do Chkdsk again or I will be in an infinite loop. (it
happened once, I had to do like 3-4 resets until it decided not to do a
chkdsk after the boot, that was when I despaired from trying and tried
a safe mode boot, which worked without chkdsk, then rebooted).


Win2k SP4 with all updates, intel 850MV motherboard, pentium4 512MB
ram, 2GB permanent swapfile, lots of free disk space, all MS updates.
(but I didn't install intel's Enhanced IDE performance improving
utility, I thought it too risky)

I have a scheduled removal of temporary windows files every day on all
of the computers so that couldn't be the problem.
the "automatically reboot" checkbox is checked, but I also tried with
it unchecked.
How can I make it continue to windows after a chkdsk?

Thanks

Easy enough to check for a bad hard drive; download and run the
manufacturer's bootable diagnostic diskette image. Discuss results with
tech support. But also check that cables are tight - that sort of thing.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> Hi there readers,
>
> Do I have a potentially bad Hard disk (every couple of weeks getting
> errors such as:
> "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1.... during a paging
> operation. "
> in event viewer) ?
>
> Also every once in a while, Windows goes into Chkdsk mode when booting,
> for no apparent reason (I have a UPS). So, on my other Win2k computers
> when this happens (usually after a user reset, for example) they go to
> chkdsk, it finds no errors and then they continue to windows without
> rebooting. I have seen it happen many times and it never gets stuck.
> (thety have similar OS configuration, windows 2k SP4 installed in
> default C:\ boot partition, Fat32 80GB etc)
>
> But on this particular computer, Chkdsk doesn't find any errors but
> never continues to windows, I must do another reset and hope it will
> not want to do Chkdsk again or I will be in an infinite loop. (it
> happened once, I had to do like 3-4 resets until it decided not to do a
> chkdsk after the boot, that was when I despaired from trying and tried
> a safe mode boot, which worked without chkdsk, then rebooted).
>
>
> Win2k SP4 with all updates, intel 850MV motherboard, pentium4 512MB
> ram, 2GB permanent swapfile, lots of free disk space, all MS updates.
> (but I didn't install intel's Enhanced IDE performance improving
> utility, I thought it too risky)
>
> I have a scheduled removal of temporary windows files every day on all
> of the computers so that couldn't be the problem.
> the "automatically reboot" checkbox is checked, but I also tried with
> it unchecked.
> How can I make it continue to windows after a chkdsk?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> Hi there readers,
>
> Do I have a potentially bad Hard disk (every couple of weeks getting
> errors such as:
> "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1.... during a paging
> operation. "
> in event viewer) ?
>
> Also every once in a while, Windows goes into Chkdsk mode when booting,
> for no apparent reason (I have a UPS). So, on my other Win2k computers
> when this happens (usually after a user reset, for example) they go to
> chkdsk, it finds no errors and then they continue to windows without
> rebooting. I have seen it happen many times and it never gets stuck.
> (thety have similar OS configuration, windows 2k SP4 installed in
> default C:\ boot partition, Fat32 80GB etc)
>
> But on this particular computer, Chkdsk doesn't find any errors but
> never continues to windows, I must do another reset and hope it will
> not want to do Chkdsk again or I will be in an infinite loop. (it
> happened once, I had to do like 3-4 resets until it decided not to do a
> chkdsk after the boot, that was when I despaired from trying and tried
> a safe mode boot, which worked without chkdsk, then rebooted).
>
>
> Win2k SP4 with all updates, intel 850MV motherboard, pentium4 512MB
> ram, 2GB permanent swapfile, lots of free disk space, all MS updates.
> (but I didn't install intel's Enhanced IDE performance improving
> utility, I thought it too risky)
>
> I have a scheduled removal of temporary windows files every day on all
> of the computers so that couldn't be the problem.
> the "automatically reboot" checkbox is checked, but I also tried with
> it unchecked.
> How can I make it continue to windows after a chkdsk?
>
> Thanks
>

It's probably a device driver conflict. Try removing all cards and
every disk except the boot disk.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi there readers,
>
> Do I have a potentially bad Hard disk (every couple of weeks getting
> errors such as:
> "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1.... during a paging
> operation. "
> in event viewer) ?
>
> Also every once in a while, Windows goes into Chkdsk mode when booting,
> for no apparent reason (I have a UPS). So, on my other Win2k computers
> when this happens (usually after a user reset, for example) they go to
> chkdsk, it finds no errors and then they continue to windows without
> rebooting. I have seen it happen many times and it never gets stuck.
> (thety have similar OS configuration, windows 2k SP4 installed in
> default C:\ boot partition, Fat32 80GB etc)
>
> But on this particular computer, Chkdsk doesn't find any errors but
> never continues to windows, I must do another reset and hope it will
> not want to do Chkdsk again or I will be in an infinite loop. (it
> happened once, I had to do like 3-4 resets until it decided not to do a
> chkdsk after the boot, that was when I despaired from trying and tried
> a safe mode boot, which worked without chkdsk, then rebooted).
>
>
> Win2k SP4 with all updates, intel 850MV motherboard, pentium4 512MB
> ram, 2GB permanent swapfile, lots of free disk space, all MS updates.
> (but I didn't install intel's Enhanced IDE performance improving
> utility, I thought it too risky)
>
> I have a scheduled removal of temporary windows files every day on all
> of the computers so that couldn't be the problem.
> the "automatically reboot" checkbox is checked, but I also tried with
> it unchecked.
> How can I make it continue to windows after a chkdsk?
>
> Thanks

try running a chkdsk c: -r

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