St. nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-07-31 19:32:
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> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
> news:42ed3d87$1@news.povray.org...
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>> St. wrote:
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>>>     XP does this when rebooting from a problem anyway,
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>> Really?
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>  Well, only from what I've experienced over the last few weeks, but yes, 
> this is what happened to me.
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> I've never had XP actually run a chkdsk just because of a
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>> reboot, even a crash. It's supposed to just apply/roll back the 
>> journal/log/whatever they call it.
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>   But this was the problem I was having; it wouldn't do that.
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>> 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.
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>    I'll try that, thanks Darren.
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>> 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.
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>   I've had about 20 pages, (read: reboots, scandisk), of  that dialogue, 
> ranging from one bad sector to fifty-ish bad sectors.
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>   HardDisk knackered? I hope not... :(
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>      ~Steve~
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>> -- 
>>   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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> 
You may have to get a new drive. I once had a drive that started missbehaving, several
bad sectors 
alerts, some corrupted files. I just had the time to install a new one, transfert most
files to it 
before the drive died. That drive is now a paperweith!

Alain

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