Hi,
Any light on this would be much appreciated.
I have my Windows XP (OEM) Home on a 300GB SATA (which also has a Linux
partition and a FAT32 partition on it). I also have 2 IDE drives - an 80 GB
and a 40GB - and an IDE CD-DVD drive and an IDE ZIP drive.
Since January 1st, my Event log has been saying I have a
"Device\Harddisk3\D, has a bad block" error ID 7. On that day I installed a
new USB webcam. Then I, decided to change it to another USB socket which
already had a printer attached to it. This I did without thinking about the
software implications. When I tried to set the auto on-line update for the
camera's software, the application hung. Indeed, everything was jammed up,
and after I got out of it I realised that my Norton Firewall was broken. I
can't recall how, but I eventually managed to break out of the webcam
software that was stuck trying to connect to the Internet. Being an idiot, I
had not set a restore point before installing my new toy.
After much worry and many cigarettes I uninstalled the camera software, the
printer software, and the firewall, and then did an sfc /scannow and a
checkdisk on my SATA disk. Then I reinstalled the Firewall, and the camera
and its software to the USB socket I preferred. (The printer will be thrown
out - but that's another story.) Checkdisk found three bad files, and (I
think) said it had fixed them. But when I ran it again, it found the exact
same files. (They were old system restore files that have since been deleted
by the system.)
After all this, everything seemed, and still seems, ok, except for the fact
that every time I turn the computer on, after about 2 minutes, I get the
"disk error". The first three days or so of my having it, it was preceded
variously by (non-error) events 7035, 5, and 108, and one day there were 2
instances of the disk error (7) in one session. Since then I only ever get
one disk error per session, and it's usually preceded by an E100B (non-error)
event.
I have trawled the Internet for clues about this error, so I shall just add
the following. I have an Intel motherboard - so I do not have Nvidia IDE
connectors; my cables are not loose; I have already downloaded and used the
hard drive manufacturer's test software, and it reports that my SATA (and the
other two) disks are fine; I've done some tests of my RAM memory, and that's
ok; my peak memory usage does not exceed my limit (although it may well have
gone up to 100% on the day all this happened because I have msn search -
which uses Windows Indexing Service which has bouts of heavy memory
consumption causing thrashing).
I hope that's enough information for now. Any ideas, please?
Jess
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JessJ
(XP Home SP/2 OEM. HDD1:Windows NTFS 280GB; Fat32 1GB; Linux 19GB.
HDD2: NTFS 80GB. HDD3: NTFS 40GB. P4 HT. 512MB)
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