Solved strange computer problem
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From: Gerry Peters on 5 Nov 2006 18:06 I posted "Strange computer problem" 10/31. I fixed the problem with Drive Image 7.0's CHKDSK. My thanks to Phoenix for recommending it. I was able to create a successful image of my C drive with Sonar 6.0 installed and restore it to my IDE HD with errors. I did 2 things that may have solved the problem: Defragged my C drive, which I hadn't done in maybe a year, since many seem to discourage that nowadays. This probably didn't do anything. The other thing I did was to run Drive Image 7.0 from the CD at bootup and go to recovery environment and choose it's version of CHKDSK.EXE, which I DI reported that it fixed some minor problems, but whatever it did seemed to do the trick. I'm wondering if this was just a Drive Image specific problem that it's version of CHKDSK fixed or if it's CHKDSK is indeed better than MS CHKDSK in general. Using the CHKDSK n the recovery envirornment is a total PITA, it takes about 10 min for it to fully load. I wonder if I could use it under XP by just copying the CHKDSK.EXE file into a directory. All this makes me wonder if there are better diagnostic tools that I should get instead of MS CHKDSK. Any suggestions?
From: AKA gray asphalt on 6 Nov 2006 19:51 Way to go. I will do the same as you did, if the problem comes up for me. "Gerry Peters" <GerryPeters(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:2jrsk25e0kqpi41asem8uavgrgfg04sbh6(a)4ax.com... >I posted "Strange computer problem" 10/31. I fixed the problem with > Drive Image 7.0's CHKDSK. My thanks to Phoenix for recommending it. > I was able to create a successful image of my C drive with Sonar 6.0 > installed and restore it to my IDE HD with errors. > > I did 2 things that may have solved the problem: > > Defragged my C drive, which I hadn't done in maybe a year, since many > seem to discourage that nowadays. This probably didn't do anything. > The other thing I did was to run Drive Image 7.0 from the CD at bootup > and go to recovery environment and choose it's version of CHKDSK.EXE, > which > > I DI reported that it fixed some minor problems, but whatever it did > seemed to do the trick. I'm wondering if this was just a Drive Image > specific problem that it's version of CHKDSK fixed or if it's CHKDSK > is indeed better than MS CHKDSK in general. > > Using the CHKDSK n the recovery envirornment is a total PITA, it takes > about 10 min for it to fully load. I wonder if I could use it under XP > by just copying the CHKDSK.EXE file into a directory. All this makes > me wonder if there are better diagnostic tools that I should get > instead of MS CHKDSK. Any suggestions? > > > >
From: kitekrazy on 6 Nov 2006 23:05 Gerry Peters wrote: > > Defragged my C drive, which I hadn't done in maybe a year, since many > seem to discourage that nowadays.< I take it you record to the C drive as well. I defrag my C drives at least once a week.
From: Gerry Peters on 6 Nov 2006 23:14 On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:05:06 GMT, kitekrazy <kitekrazy(a)sbcglobal.net.nospam> wrote: > > I take it you record to the C drive as well. > > I defrag my C drives at least once a week. I have a separate 200 gig audio drive and quit defragging it after many in this newsgroup have suggested it's not necessary and possilby even detrimental. Although I plan to defrag my boot drive (8 gig partition) more often in case it helps. I also backup all 3 networked computers every night just as a precaution Gerry Peters
From: Max Arwood on 7 Nov 2006 14:00
I wish someone would make a good utility program like the was Norton utilities was when it 1st came out. Don't know why Norton is so bloated and not very good anymore. Glad you figured it out. Max Arwood "Gerry Peters" <GerryPeters(a)nospam.com> wrote in message news:2jrsk25e0kqpi41asem8uavgrgfg04sbh6(a)4ax.com... >I posted "Strange computer problem" 10/31. I fixed the problem with > Drive Image 7.0's CHKDSK. My thanks to Phoenix for recommending it. > I was able to create a successful image of my C drive with Sonar 6.0 > installed and restore it to my IDE HD with errors. > > I did 2 things that may have solved the problem: > > Defragged my C drive, which I hadn't done in maybe a year, since many > seem to discourage that nowadays. This probably didn't do anything. > The other thing I did was to run Drive Image 7.0 from the CD at bootup > and go to recovery environment and choose it's version of CHKDSK.EXE, > which > > I DI reported that it fixed some minor problems, but whatever it did > seemed to do the trick. I'm wondering if this was just a Drive Image > specific problem that it's version of CHKDSK fixed or if it's CHKDSK > is indeed better than MS CHKDSK in general. > > Using the CHKDSK n the recovery envirornment is a total PITA, it takes > about 10 min for it to fully load. I wonder if I could use it under XP > by just copying the CHKDSK.EXE file into a directory. All this makes > me wonder if there are better diagnostic tools that I should get > instead of MS CHKDSK. Any suggestions? > > > > |