"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>     XP does this when rebooting from a problem anyway,
>
> Really?

  Well, only from what I've experienced over the last few weeks, but yes, 
this is what happened to me.


I've never had XP actually run a chkdsk just because of a
> reboot, even a crash. It's supposed to just apply/roll back the 
> journal/log/whatever they call it.

   But this was the problem I was having; it wouldn't do that.


>
> I've often found that problems like this are caused by failing disk 
> sectors in places like the swap file. You might want to run a
> "chkdsk /f /r" a couple times when the machine's otherwise mostly idle.

    I'll try that, thanks Darren.


>
> I've several times had a machine that was acting flakier and flakier over 
> the course of a week or two, then pop up a dialog saying "found a bad 
> sector in (important system structure), relocating" and had everything 
> start being smooth again.

   I've had about 20 pages, (read: reboots, scandisk), of  that dialogue, 
ranging from one bad sector to fifty-ish bad sectors.

   HardDisk knackered? I hope not... :(

      ~Steve~


>
> -- 
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>     "You shouldn't buy ice cream. It's bad
>      for you and it'll make you fat. Oh,
>      look. A 2-for-1 sale. Get two."

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