Gooday to you all!
I might as well use this post to say hi since this is my first post in here
I have a small problem. Or well, I don't actually know how small it is...
2 years ago I got this computer:
3.06 Ghz (p4)
1024 Mb RAM
250 GB Western Digital HDD
It was a monster back then, and it's still a really good machine! However, about a year ago I stumbled across a bit of problem with my HDD. After a freezup in Windows I had to make a hard reboot, and when I booted up again very quickly heard a quick peep sound from the computer and I looked up at the screen to find a lot of text staring back at me. It said something about S.M.A.R.T and "status BAD, backup and replace".
That can't be good I thought to myself, and went into a Irc channel to see if I could get some help since I'm no computer genius myself. Well, I actually had the luck of finding some computer techie, who helped me with doing a CHKDSK, and that helped to solve my problem! Apart from making 100GB of my HDD unusable, but hey, I still had 150GB left to spare.
Well it worked fine and dandy with my 150GB, and a while I decided it was time to format and give my computer a nice healthy fresh start. And so I did! No problems at all, and when I booted up windows and checked out my diskspace... Lo and behold, 250GB right there again! Wow that's good news! And it all worked great!
But now, when summer is here, I'm getting back my old problems with the HDD. I can do a CHKDSK /r /f and it temporarily fixes the problem. No space is made unusable, but some bad sectors are replaced however. So then the computer runs smoothly for a few days. And then WHAM! It's back again. Same old problem. And let me tell you, doing a CHKDSK on a 250GB HDD isn't a whole box of jolly fun since it takes it's time!
And I have no idea what to do.. My initial thought was that it might have something to do with the heat? But I got SpeedFan and the HDD temp is quite low. My fans are donig their job nicely, and I even trimmed them up a bit using SpeedFan. Still no difference.
My second thought was that if I perhaps have some nasty, deepgoing virus that's affecting my HDD? I don't have a virus protection you see... Maybe I should be off to get one asap eh?
Any ideas or thoughts about this?
Thanks in advance!
I might as well use this post to say hi since this is my first post in here
I have a small problem. Or well, I don't actually know how small it is...
2 years ago I got this computer:
3.06 Ghz (p4)
1024 Mb RAM
250 GB Western Digital HDD
It was a monster back then, and it's still a really good machine! However, about a year ago I stumbled across a bit of problem with my HDD. After a freezup in Windows I had to make a hard reboot, and when I booted up again very quickly heard a quick peep sound from the computer and I looked up at the screen to find a lot of text staring back at me. It said something about S.M.A.R.T and "status BAD, backup and replace".
That can't be good I thought to myself, and went into a Irc channel to see if I could get some help since I'm no computer genius myself. Well, I actually had the luck of finding some computer techie, who helped me with doing a CHKDSK, and that helped to solve my problem! Apart from making 100GB of my HDD unusable, but hey, I still had 150GB left to spare.
Well it worked fine and dandy with my 150GB, and a while I decided it was time to format and give my computer a nice healthy fresh start. And so I did! No problems at all, and when I booted up windows and checked out my diskspace... Lo and behold, 250GB right there again! Wow that's good news! And it all worked great!
But now, when summer is here, I'm getting back my old problems with the HDD. I can do a CHKDSK /r /f and it temporarily fixes the problem. No space is made unusable, but some bad sectors are replaced however. So then the computer runs smoothly for a few days. And then WHAM! It's back again. Same old problem. And let me tell you, doing a CHKDSK on a 250GB HDD isn't a whole box of jolly fun since it takes it's time!
And I have no idea what to do.. My initial thought was that it might have something to do with the heat? But I got SpeedFan and the HDD temp is quite low. My fans are donig their job nicely, and I even trimmed them up a bit using SpeedFan. Still no difference.
My second thought was that if I perhaps have some nasty, deepgoing virus that's affecting my HDD? I don't have a virus protection you see... Maybe I should be off to get one asap eh?
Any ideas or thoughts about this?
Thanks in advance!
