Check Disk

[Marti Carlisle]

Every time I turn my computer on (for the past week or 2)
I get the message that it needs to check the disk, et...
It does so and then i get the same message again.... Now
it is running very SLOW. What is the problem?

 

[Paul B T Hodges]

Perhaps you have a disk going bad

Go to a command prompt

start/run
cmd

and run the command

fsutil dirty query c:

Replace C: with the drive letter being checked.

If it reports dirty then xp has flagged it because it has detected a problem
with it.
Run this command immediately after the system starts, if its dirty then,
either chkdsk isn't fixing the problem, or xp is detecting a problem
straight away.

Check in the system event log for any disk or file system errors, especially
timeouts and crc errors.

start/run
eventvwr.msc

Click on system in left hand pane to select system event log.

If you know the manufacturer of the hard disk, it wouldn't be a bad idea, to
go to their website and download and run their disk diagnostic utility, all
manufacturers have them.

Disk corruptions may also be caused by other hardware problems particularly
memory, Does your system scan memory when it starts up, do you see a counter
wizzing by when you first power on the system ?

Paul

 

[Paul B T Hodges]

Marti

I missed an important point, just in case it is a disk problem, backup
anything you can't afford to lose.
You should be doing this anyway of course

Paul