Safely remove Hardware freezes Windows

[tomasio]

Dear NG-Readers,

Each time when I try to get to the "Safely remove hardware"-dialog, It
takes _minutes_ untill it opens. Regarding to the "Event-Manager" I
got an error of the following kind (in german):

"Fehlerhafter Block bei Gerät \Device\Harddisk0\D."

which means in English:
"The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block."

Does anybody know how I can fix this without reinstalling Windows?

kind regards,

 

[Unk]

Dear NG-Readers,

Each time when I try to get to the "Safely remove hardware"-dialog, It
takes _minutes_ untill it opens. Regarding to the "Event-Manager" I
got an error of the following kind (in german):

"Fehlerhafter Block bei Gerät \Device\Harddisk0\D."

which means in English:
"The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block."

Does anybody know how I can fix this without reinstalling Windows?

kind regards,

Did you try running CHKDSK /R from a command prompt?

Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c28621675.mspx

 

[tomasio]

Did you try running CHKDSK /R from a command prompt?

Troubleshooting Disks and File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c28621675.mspx

just did that and it repaired a looooooong time. anyway, windows seems
to be more stabile now. Thanks a lot, pal!

kind regrads,
tomasio