Pagefile Volume - I/O Error Status 0xC000009a

[Nobody]

Hi,

I am stuck.
I am pretty sure my problem is the Pagefile Volume.

I recently restarted my computer and came up with all kinds of errors.
Most of the errors mention an I/O error status "0xC000009a".

Well, I looked at the System Events.
Sure enough, I am getting approx 100 or more warnings relating to the hard drive.
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation."
(My single hard drive is partitioned into 2 virtual drives.
I imagine the D drive is for pagefile optimization as it is only a 1 GB partition.)

I ensured that the pagefile was only resident on the C Drive.
That didn't seem to fix the problem.
I tried setting it to have no pagefile at all.
That didn't work.
I even went so far as to delete the D partition.
Still, I am getting the "Warnings about Errors."
and Windows will not startup normally.

Why would I still be getting the warnings/errors?
How do I stop the warnings/errors from occuring?


P.S.
I ran chkdsk and there are/were no errors on the C Drive or D Drive.
I also deleted the pagefile and recreated the pagefile.

Thanks for your help,


Details...

Fujitsu Lifebook N Series.
Windows XP Service Pack 2.

//===============================================================================
// Sytem Event Log
//===============================================================================
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 5/1/2007
Time: 2:53:02 AM
User: N/A
Computer: CHOLLAND
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..?
0010: 2d 01 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 -...?..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 80 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 ?7......
0030: ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 30 00 00 00 00 @..0....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 06 00 60 36 a8 85 ....`6¨?
0058: 00 00 00 00 30 34 a8 85 ....04¨?
0060: 00 00 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 ....?..À
0068: 28 00 03 34 42 10 00 00 (..4B...
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
//===============================================================================
// Help and Support Center Explanation
//===============================================================================
An input/output (I/O) request to a memory-mapped file failed and the operation was retried.

//===============================================================================
// Second Microsoft Explanation
//===============================================================================
When your computer pages information to or from the disk, if a generic error occurs, it logs an Event ID 51event message. In a paging operation, the operating system either swaps a page of memory from memory to disk or retrieves a page of memory from disk to memory. It is part of the memory management of Microsoft Windows.

However, the computer may log this event message when it loads images from a storage device, reads and writes to locally mapped files or to any file (as long as it is buffered I/O). The computer does not log this event message when it performs non-buffered I/O. You can troubleshoot an Event ID 51 event message the same way as you troubleshoot Event ID 9 or 11 event messages.

Reference Websites:
http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid43_gci1204880,00..html

 

[Dennis McCunney]

* Nobody wrote, On 5/1/2007 8:40 AM:

I am stuck. I am pretty sure my problem is the Pagefile Volume.

Don't be. I think the problem is elsewhere.

I recently restarted my computer and came up with all kinds of errors.
Most of the errors mention an I/O error status "0xC000009a".

Well, I looked at the System Events.
Sure enough, I am getting approx 100 or more warnings relating to the hard drive.
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation."
(My single hard drive is partitioned into 2 virtual drives.
I imagine the D drive is for pagefile optimization as it is only a 1 GB partition.)

Not unless you specifically chose to put it there. Windows defaults to
putting pagefile.sys in the root directory of your boot drive.

It *is* possible to place it elsewhere, and some folks do so as a
performance tweak, placing the pagefile on *another* drive on a separate
IDE connector, to spread disk access over two physical drives. This is
meaningless on a single drive partitioned into two logical drives, as
there is only one physical drive.

I ensured that the pagefile was only resident on the C Drive.
That didn't seem to fix the problem.
I tried setting it to have no pagefile at all.
That didn't work.
I even went so far as to delete the D partition.
Still, I am getting the "Warnings about Errors."
and Windows will not startup normally.

Why would I still be getting the warnings/errors?
How do I stop the warnings/errors from occuring?

You have a problem with the drive, and it needs to be fixed.

P.S.
I ran chkdsk and there are/were no errors on the C Drive or D Drive.
I also deleted the pagefile and recreated the pagefile.

The pagefile isn't your problem. The drive is. (It looks like the
pagefile just happens to be in the problem area on the drive.)
Right-click on the drive in My Computer. Select Properties. In the
Properties box, select Tools. Under Error Checking, click Check Now.
In the Check Disk options box, check both "Automatically fix file system
errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". Click
Start. Windows will tell you it can't do it because the drive is in
use, and ask if you want ti done when you reboot. Say yes, and reboot.
Windows will run CHKDSK when you boot, before the GUI is loaded and it
has exclusive access to the drive.

I strongly suspect CHKDSK will find bad blocks on the drive. When it
does, it will attempt to recover any data and store it elsewhere, then
add them to the bad block table on the drive, which will not attempt to
use them in the future.

This form of CHKDSK can take a while. (I just had to do it here on a
500GB two drive RAID 0 SATA array. It took several hours.)

Thanks for your help,

You're welcome.
______
Dennis

 

[Rock]

Hi,

I am stuck.
I am pretty sure my problem is the Pagefile Volume.

I recently restarted my computer and came up with all kinds of errors.
Most of the errors mention an I/O error status "0xC000009a".

Well, I looked at the System Events.
Sure enough, I am getting approx 100 or more warnings relating to the hard
drive.
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging
operation."
(My single hard drive is partitioned into 2 virtual drives.
I imagine the D drive is for pagefile optimization as it is only a 1 GB
partition.)

I ensured that the pagefile was only resident on the C Drive.
That didn't seem to fix the problem.
I tried setting it to have no pagefile at all.
That didn't work.
I even went so far as to delete the D partition.
Still, I am getting the "Warnings about Errors."
and Windows will not startup normally.

Why would I still be getting the warnings/errors?
How do I stop the warnings/errors from occuring?


<snip>

There is a problem writing to the drive, but just because it states a paging
operation doesn't mean it happens when writing to a page file. That message
is misleading.

Download a drive diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturer's web site.
That will create a bootable floppy or CD. Boot from that and run the
diagnostics on the drive.

Others things to try, depending on need include, replace the ribbon cable,
put the drive on a different IDE channel.

 

[Nobody]

Hi,

Well, there are no problems with the hard drive.
I ran chkdsk and the hard drive manufacturers utility.
The computer is a laptop, so I don't believe I have the
option of multiple harddrives or different IDE channnels.

I really wonder why they formatted the drive to have a 1 GB partition.
It seems like it is being used for something important.

I found this.
It is exactly what I am experiencing.
I still need to read it all. It is 23 pages long.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/12946/

I'll keep you posted.

 

[Nobody]

Hi,

Well, It took a while but I found out what was causing the problem.
I deleted all the files in the C:\Windows\Prefetch Folder.

This is the problem I was having.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/12946/

Also, though it might not be relevant, I also did the following.
I switched the radio button for Memory Usage to Programs instead of System Cache.
I also suspect that somehow the hive might have been corrupted as well, so I also ran the UPHClean program/service.
I am not sure, but I seen something about the USN Journal during the chkdsk.

Thanks,

 

[Nobody]

Hi,

Well, It took a while but I found out what was causing the problem.
I deleted all the files in the C:\Windows\Prefetch Folder.

This is the problem I was having.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/12946/

Also, though it might not be relevant, I also did the following.
I switched the radio button for Memory Usage to Programs instead of System Cache.
I also suspect that somehow the hive might have been corrupted as well, so I also ran the UPHClean program/service.
I am not sure, but I seen something about the USN Journal during the chkdsk.

P.S. Strange as it might sound. There was nothing wrong with the hard drive.

Thanks,