Out of my depth.

trackrat · 31 May 2011 at 19:07

I am having a few problems with my computer running Windows 7 64bit.
It has run faultlessly for 2 months, then yesterday it booted to the Windows logo and would go no further, so I restarted and it gave me the option to do a repair which I accepted, it then said it had failed and did I want to do a restore, which I did then it asked me to reboot and it worked OK.
Today I switched it on and it started doing a disk check ( I am sure it said it was the D drive, as the OS is on the C drive).(There are two separate 250GB hard drives in this computer).
Going through the check this is what turned up,
Repairing the unreadable security descriptors data stream,
Insufficient disk space to to fix security descriptors data stream,
Repairing the security file record segment,

Then it goes on to Usn journal verification completed,
Then correcting errors in the uppercase file.

It has now been on the uppercase file correction for over an hour.
Can anyone give me any idea what is happening, as I am out of my comfort zone.

Uhtred · 31 May 2011 at 19:22

sounds like your hard disk has most likely failed or is about to. Do you know what make of hard disk it is? Let it finish running and see if you can get back into windows. If you can make sure you get a backup of everything

JaseUK · 31 May 2011 at 19:57

Download Seagates HDD Diagnostic tool if you can and burn it to a disc.
Boot your computer from the disc and run a full diagnostic on the hard drive.

Just noticed you mentioned you had 2 HDD's. Try unplugging the D drive one and see how you get on.
Still do diagnostic check on C though.

trackrat · 31 May 2011 at 21:16

JaseUK, you are a star, I disconnected the D drive and it booted straight into Windows.
But how can a drive with only games on it affect the C drive to stop it booting.

Dewotter · 31 May 2011 at 21:27

trackrat said:
JaseUK, you are a star, I disconnected the D drive and it booted straight into Windows.
But how can a drive with only games on it affect the C drive to stop it booting.

Windows is seeing that a drive is dodgy so will try and fix it, meaning you won't get into Windows until it has.

trackrat · 31 May 2011 at 21:33

I did not realize that when Windows loads it checks all the hard drives before booting.