I'm actually glad to hear that.
Good luck.
Dave
"Gary Karasik" <gkarasik2fea.net> wrote in message
| Wallow in my problem?
|
| Two Western Digitals, four Maxtors.
|
| I tested all six. All passed all tests.
|
| Thanks for taking the time to respond.
|
| GaryK
|
| | > OK wallow in your problem. I gave you a test. With it you can rule-in
| > or rule-out a
| > particular problem. Without it you are just plain lost.
| >
| > Just because you have a half dozen PCs that are doing this does NOT
| > exclude a hard disk
| > problem. Based upon my experiences, if you have a large org. with many of
| > the same
| > platforms, if you see one problem on one PC you can see it an others as
| > they are all built
| > at the same time and tend to use the same batch of components.
| >
| > I'll have you know that my company uses CSC as our Prime Contractor and
| > through them we had
| > them build thousands of platforms for our enterprise. We too obtained
| > their platforms (~ 80
| > platforms in '97) for our Program Manager's office. Several months later
| > starting seeing
| > the hard disks failing in these platforms. All were SeaGate and all were
| > the same model.
| > The number of drives failing were too large in too short of time to be
| > random events. I
| > contacted CSC and forced a pow wow between CSC and SeaGate. SeaGate
| > finally admitted they
| > had a bad QC run in Singapore (dust got into the drives) and *all* the
| > hard disks were
| > summarily replaced by CSC. That was over 5,000 3GB SeaGate drives
| > replaced in our office
| > and in our enterprise.
| >
| > Run the test. What have you go to loose ?
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > "Gary Karasik" <gkarasik2fea.net> wrote in message
| > | > | Six machines are doing this, and "Last Known Good" lets them recover,
| > and
| > | running CHKDSK /P /R from the Recoverly Console works fine, so it's not
| > a
| > | hard-disk problem, but thanks.
| > |
| > | GaryK
| > |
| > | | > | > Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their
| > diagnostic
| > | > software
| > | > respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the
| > hard
| > | > disk is bad or
| > | > not..
| > | >
| > | > Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
| > | >
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
| > | >
| > | > Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
| > | >
http://support.wdc.com/download/
| > | >
| > | > Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
| > | >
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
| > | >
| > | > Seagate - SeaTools
| > | >
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
| > | >
| > | > Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
| > | >
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/
| > | >
| > | > Samsung - Disk manager
| > | >
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/
| > | >
| > | > Dave
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > "Gary Karasik" <gkarasik2fea.net> wrote in message
| > | > | > | > | Hi,
| > | > |
| > | > | I have a client with several XP/Pro Dell 4100s. Running CHKDSK /F on
| > | > these
| > | > | machines, whether they're SP1 or SP2, causes them to crash on reboot
| > and
| > | > | either go to a blue screen or to rerun CHKDSK in a loop (reboots,
| > runs
| > | > | CHKDSK, reboots, runs CHKDSK). The only way to get the machines to
| > boot
| > | > into
| > | > | XP is to use Last Known Good.
| > | > |
| > | > | If I boot to the Recovery Console, I can run CHKDSK /P without
| > problems.
| > | > |
| > | > | Any thoughts?
| > | > |
| > | > | GaryK
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