Do All Cognoscenti, Greeting!

Could somebody please tell me which system log files (Windows XP Prof.) I
should check if I suspect my HDD is dying?

Thanks.

Andy

Andy wrote:
> Do All Cognoscenti, Greeting!
>
> Could somebody please tell me which system log files (Windows XP Prof.) I
> should check if I suspect my HDD is dying?

Run scandisk and look for the scandisk.log file. That's one of them.

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Regards from John Corliss

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:25:50 GMT, "Andy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Do All Cognoscenti, Greeting!
>
>Could somebody please tell me which system log files (Windows XP Prof.) I
>should check if I suspect my HDD is dying?


You can check Event Viewer, but you really don't want to
diagnose this with a generic windows log. Since you suspect
the drive, copy off valuable data NOW then run the HDD
manufacturer's utility disc.

An entry will be made in your Event Log or you could pass the results of
chkdsk into a text file using >. For example, if you want to name the file
"log", you would type "chkdsk > c:\log.txt" at a command prompt.