scandisk log location?

[LRW]

Yesterday my HD started making nasty sounds like the read head constantly
hitting something. And the HD slowing down to a crawl, and event viewer
getting errors like:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging
operation.

So I set it to do a Scandisk with autocorrect and bad sector test. It's
WindowsXP Pro, so it started after rebooting. I let it go and went to bed.
This morning the PC was at the welcome screen...and everything's acting
A-OK! No problems, slowdowns, or sounds.

So my question is: Where is the log for the scandisk? How can I find out
what it detected and what it did?
I did a search of *.txt; *.log and found a lot...but nothing that seemed to
apply.

Secondly, since doing the scandisk I started seeing errors in the Event Log
like:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: atapi
Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Ide\IdePort0 has old or
out-of-date firmware. Reduced performance may result.

How does one update the firmware? Is that for the motherboard, or the HD
itself??

Thanks for any help!!
Liam

 

[Taurarian]

How to view the Chkdsk Log Entry:-
You will find the chkdsk log entry in the Application log of Event Viewer.
To access the Event Viewer
.. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools> Event Viewer > Application.
.. Look for the Event from the source "WinLogon".

Don't know about the rest......