HD Problems

[Guest]

I've a Toshiba M35XS149 Satellite used mostly for e-mail and web. The
notebooks about 3.5 years old now and has started locking up... all freezes
(system clean as ad-ware, spyware, malware programs show) cursor, Ctrl Alt
Del...no response. Must hold down power botton till system turns off then
reboot sometimes to a dead screen with just the sound of the processor fan
coming on and off , sometimes to the sound of the HDD making a somewhat loud
search sound before all will work again. Once I am in windows I must run a
browser off an external HDD or quickly get iTunes running music or radio
otherwise the system freezes in a matter of seconds. My XP SP2 runs perfect
if I have one of the above mentioned programs on. Is my HDD going bad ?
Help Please !

 

[DL]

Determin the make of hd on your Tosh. then visit the hd manu web site, they
will have a utility which runs from a boot flopy, or cd, to test your hd

 

[Guest]

I have run Defrag and chkdsk /f also but running chkdsk while in windows
shows that I have a windows problem w/the file system and that I have free
space allocated in the volumn bitmap. Chkdsk /f will not fix this as I have
run it over...Any HELP Appreciated : ]

 

[Guest]

Thank you DL will set out to find the HD utility @ Toshiba.

 

[DL]

The hd utility is obtained from the hd manu site, eg Seagate, WD etc not
neccessarily Tosh site.

 

[Guest]

Thanks again DL. Went through this newsgroup for similar problems and Seagate
had the file but my sonic copy will not work w/ .iso files also downloaded a
recorder which should have burned the file to CD and did but this system will
not boot from it. Will keep on looking as this HD is going.

 

[Airman Thunderbird]

This freeware CD program will burn ISO images
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/