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critical system structure errors!
Name: Luregn Date: February 19, 2006 at 22:52:07 Pacific OS: XP PRO CPU/Ram: P4/1.5GB Product: Intel4
Comment:
Hello members A few months ago I bought and installed this HDD:Seagate Barracuda 7.200, 200 GB IDE Hard Drive. Till a few weeks ago it all seemed to work ok and then I started noticing small changes or small things not working exactly. I then got Easy Recovery Pro to run the partition test and this is what the result is: Test Results: Partition test for volume C: Failed! Partition test for volume X: Failed! Recommendations: Partition test for drive C failed, critical system structure errors have been found. Partition test for drive X failed, critical system structure errors have been found. Is there a possibility without formating? Is this a "physical" problem? Does the drive need to be replaced?
Any comments and suggestions are very much appreciated.
Name: Lawrence Date: February 20, 2006 at 02:46:45 Pacific
Reply:
did u buy it new if u did take it back if u didnt probably had a worm or virus on the hdd
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Response Number 2
Name: Luregn Date: February 20, 2006 at 09:46:32 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Lawrence It is a HDD from a retailer and it is about 5 months old. The system was protected with SIS 2005 and never had a problem. Also Spybot,Counterspy and Ad-aware6 are regularly run. Someone suggested it may be runing a slight bit to hot. For some reason the temp is quite often above the 50 degr C. Any other suggestions?
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