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I've read here before about scandisk errors being a possible early sign of a failing hard drive. Is this just if it finds bad clusters? Or is it the errors? I just did a standard scandisk, and it found errors and fixed them all. I copied it and am pasting the report here:
Log file generated at 17:36 on 6/13/2002.
ScanDisk used the following options:
Standard test
Automatically fix errorsDrive HP_PAVILION (C:) contained the following errors:
The drive's file allocation tables (FATs) did not match.
Resolution: Repair the error
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.The drive's file allocation tables (FATs) did not match.
Resolution: Repair the error
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.ScanDisk found 32768 bytes of data in 1 lost file fragment(s).
Resolution: Discard lost file fragment(s)
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.ScanDisk found errors on this drive and fixed them all.
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Do I have a possible problem? Thanks, guys.
I wouldn't worry too much dianna...the best part of that is it looks like your not letting Windows fix 'em automatically.At least that way,you can see/post what they are,and get/have a clue what's going on.I think that's the best approach.
Now,watch some guru come along and tell us different....about the actual errors,anyway.
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That's exactly what scandisk is supposed to do. The Windows FAT geting messed up happens quite often. If you don't run scandisk regularly, it can get messed up so bad that eventually Windows won't start up right and you have to reinstall. It's when scandisk starts finding more and more unreadable sectors that you need to worry that the hard drive might be failing. I run the standard scan about twice a week and a thorough surface scan maybe once a month.
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Well, I do have it checked to automatically fix the errors. I went to C/Scandisk log or whatever it's called to find the report. I wouldn't have any idea of how to fix 'em myself.
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Well,I'm pretty doggone sure if you do a manual scandisk,and don't check the "automatically fix errors" box,you'll see those results w/o having to go to the log to view it.Then you can choose to let Windows fix the errors from there.
I don't think you get that option after a "bad shutdown".
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Kid, I went into the advanced option on mine, and it has a setting to show you the log after a bad shutdown to ask you that. It has a prompt before fixing errors after bad shutdown, if you want to enable that. Mine is unchecked. Maybe I should check it?
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Diana, just to let you know also, I recieved those errors for years, on a bad hard drive, And just recently I never had any errors in Scandisk on a firley new hard drive even unchecked fix automatically just to see because my drive was acting up, then I always ran one with auto fix, But my scan came thru with no errors and guess what it failed 2 days later, so you need to do the scandisk and defrag always like normal for the performance, but I don't think it always let you know of hard drive is failure.
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