CheckDisk

[Guest]

Windows XP Home Edition deleted 6 , files I presume , and one of them was
deleted with the message " deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "" )
from file record segment 6182 and 5 others wetre deleted with a similar
message .
I live in a house with an outdated electric power board cicuit and the
harddrive oftens begins to click because , I presume again after a few months
research , it does not get enough power to process the data it receives .
Hence a rapid up and down movement of something in the harddrive that moves
up and down when the harddrive tries to process data .
I used Western Digitals WINDLG Diagnostic Tool to examine and repair the
harddrive and it did repair the harddrive once .
I am wondering what the files above were that got deleted . Perhaps they
were files used by the Western Digital Tool to repair the harddrive . The
files deleted were deleted under the Security Descriptors during CheckDisk
..
Can someone give me any dea what the (128, "") means , or is please ?

 

[Guest]

Files weren't actually being deleted. What was being deleted were properties
(or "attributes") of the files. This usually occurs when multiple attributes
associated with a given file have the same attribute instance tag value.
This can happen if files are repeatedly created or deleted from a directory.
In short, there isn't any real damage to the drive, CHKDSK was just fixing
some oddities.

 

[Guest]

Thats Grand news , thanks very much .
I am trying to cope with an outdated eletricity source , to the best of
my knowledge , and am trying to keep my computer habits as best I can to
prevent damage to the computer .
Would opening and closing access to Outlook Express and Internet Explorer
repeatedly create and delete files from the directory ?
I am receiving a government benefit for my income .
Thankyou .

 

[Guest]

To my knowledge, Outlook doesn't repeatedly create/delete files. Internet
Explorer, however, will. Internet Explorer basically creates 2 kinds of
files, a cache and cookies. The cache is roughly a copy of almost every
webpage you've visited. This is why a webpage will load faster the second
time you visit it. Cookies store bits of information for the webpage to use.
As far as deleting goes, these files begin to get deleted once they've
occupied a certain quota of your harddrive. This quota varies from system to
system but, for example, if your cache files have reached 5GB and the quota
is 5GB, the oldest files will get deleted to make room for new files in the
cache.

And by the way, I know how it goes using an outdated electrical system. I'm
currently living in a house with electrical wiring that was installed in the
40s and 50s.

Best of luck.

 

[Guest]

Howdie LargeNostril ,
I guess you are named that because you either have large fingers or you
natrually have a large nostril .
For the web pages that I visit a second time , do I need to use the
History rather than Favorites for Windows to use the record it keeps of
visited websites to let Windows use the stored information to save Windows
from using bandwidth a second time .
Just thinking of becoming efficient as possible while I wait on the
landlord so I can use my computer without fretting every time it goes click
or whirr .
Have you had any problems with your computer using the older electricity
in your house . Most appliances here have misbehaved in the 3 years I have
been living here .

 

[Guest]

I guess you are named that because you either have large fingers or you

natrually have a large nostril .

LOL. Well, actually I use that name because everybody used to steal my
handle/alias/screenname so I can up with one that nobody would want to use
. But I like your reasoning better.

For the web pages that I visit a second time , do I need to use the
History rather than Favorites for Windows to use the record it keeps of
visited websites to let Windows use the stored information to save Windows
from using bandwidth a second time .

The History just keeps a list of the most recently visited sites for your
reference. Internet Explorer naturally uses the cache to conserve bandwith
and load pages faster. Whenever you visit a page, Interent Explorer makes a
request to the server the page is hosted and asks when the various parts of
the page were modified. It then checks those date against the ones of the
files stored in your cache to see if the website is using a newer file. If
it is newer, Interent Explorer will download it. If it's not, it uses the
one in the cache. So, in short, you don't have to go out of your way to
conserver bandwith and load pages faster. Interent Explorer does that for
you already.

Have you had any problems with your computer using the older electricity
in your house . Most appliances here have misbehaved in the 3 years I have
been living here .

Well, since I run about 8 or 9 computers 24/7, I invested in a UPS
(Uninterruptible Power Supply) so I don't have issues with my computers.
However, my lights are constantly flickering so I've gotten used to a dark
room and other appliances like to randomly turn off and restart,
especially the microwave.

 

[Guest]

Now I understand better , thankyou .
This old house has been recommended for its electricity circuits be
upgraded , expensively , but it is the landlords responsibility which he is
very slow to take on .
You would be due to upgrade your power supply setup in your house too then
wouldnt you LargeNostril . Would cost NZ$3500 to NZ$4250 here , but most
appliances malfunction and then breakdown otherwise .