Random Corrupt Files??!! :S

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Ok, colour me worried, but I keep getting random balloon tips in Windows XP telling me 'File xxyyzyyz.xxy has become corrupted. Please run chkdsk.exe to fix this problem'. I run chkdsk and it seems to delete some corrupted files, for example, it said my Gmail notifier program's exe was corrupted, so i ran chkdsk and then it was fine, but the gmail program was open all the time and still runs absolutely fine. Then when I reboot, it sometimes runs the "Windows has detected an inconsistency in the file system and is going to run a check" disk check, which then displays a load of 'deleting orphaned files' lines.

Anyway, nothing seems to have stopped working yet, but I'm getting obviously worried as it's not the first time this has happened. I reformatted about 4 months ago because this began to happen, and I don't want to turn my computer on one day and find that it, well, won't. Could it be my Windows installation or is it more likely to be my hard drive? The system drive is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB, so if needs be i can back it all up onto my 300GB media drive and then do whatever needs to be done, if anything can be done?! Anyway, let me know guys, and if this would be more at home in the hard drives forum, feel free to move it, mods! :)
 
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Are you overclocking at all? Can happen if you don't have a pci lock on the mb. End up with too much juice going to the hd
 
I was a while back, a fellow OcUK boarder (firegod) softmodded my 2800+ to a 3200+, but after several overheat alarms I decided to clock back down until I got some better cooling. SO the short answer is 'no' :) (at least not that i know of?) But it's weird because, like last time, i didn't have any problems for ages, but now it's happening more and more frequently, which makes me think it might not be a hard drive issue, you know? Like Windows catching up with its decaying self...or something..........
 
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Alrite. :)

Yeah it shouldn't be overclocked anymore, so you should be ok on that front. :p If you think it is your hdd perhaps giving up the ghost, try this handy program.

http://www.drivehealth.com/

You can run it on a trial basis (basically cuts out some of the fancy options) but that should hopefully show up anything bad. Run it and take a screenshot if you can bud. :)

What happens if you run the drive at a slower transfer rate? I.e. in Device Manager under your IDE controller instead of UDMA6 try UDMA4 for a day or so.

Also, I don't know if this would matter, but the nForce Chipset Drivers. Did you install the Nvidia SW (I think that's what its called) Controller? Perhaps try not installing that this time around?
 
Right, I installed that prog, but it's only giving me info on my secondary drive, the 300GB Maxtor. I've looked for a way to make it analyse my primary drive, but can't seem to find any. Am i being a n00b? Here's the screener anyway:

mydrive.GIF


I can try the lower transfer rate. What will that do in terms of performance, tho? I think I did install the nVidia SW Controller, whatever that is. And it was just recently too, like about a week ago (around about the same time this stuff started happening, hmmmm :confused: )

Do you know what it is/if i should get rid of it/how to get rid?
 
peanutismint said:
Right, I installed that prog, but it's only giving me info on my secondary drive, the 300GB Maxtor. I've looked for a way to make it analyse my primary drive, but can't seem to find any. Am i being a n00b? Here's the screener anyway:


I can try the lower transfer rate. What will that do in terms of performance, tho? I think I did install the nVidia SW Controller, whatever that is. And it was just recently too, like about a week ago (around about the same time this stuff started happening, hmmmm :confused: )

Do you know what it is/if i should get rid of it/how to get rid?
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That's strange, it showed both of my drives when I did it? :confused: Anywho, lets ignore that then. Lowering the transfer rate will effect performance (I don't know by how much) but its just to test it.

What I suggest first is to change the IDE Controller. Uninstall the chipset drivers, re-install them and when it asks you click "No" to using the Nvidia SW thingy mcboby. ;)

See if that helps.
 
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Have you done a virus scan recently?
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I have AVG Resident Shield running in the background at all times, so it shouldn't be a virus.

Firegod said:
What I suggest first is to change the IDE Controller.
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Ok so it's now saying that it's running on Primary, Secondary and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE whatever that means. My hard drive is SATA, don't know if that makes any difference at all! When i uninstalled it gave me the option to just uninstall the IDE drivers, so i did that. But when I rebooted, the system still tried to run a disk check, as if it knew something was still wrong...
 
peanutismint said:
I have AVG Resident Shield running in the background at all times, so it shouldn't be a virus.



Ok so it's now saying that it's running on Primary, Secondary and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE whatever that means. My hard drive is SATA, don't know if that makes any difference at all! When i uninstalled it gave me the option to just uninstall the IDE drivers, so i did that. But when I rebooted, the system still tried to run a disk check, as if it knew something was still wrong...
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Lol go buy some new SATA-II hdd's man. :D Be done with it and stat afresh. :p

*ahem*
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - £61.04
*ahem*

...darn cough. ;)
 
Hahah do OcUK still give their boardies 'mad props' for advertising their own wares?! Lol anyway, the plot thickens: I managed to capture a screenshot of such a 'corrupt file warning' popup balloon as I was re-installing my Sony SonicStage program:

corruptfilebaloon.JPG


This is typical of the popups that appear sometimes. Any ideas? Does the file it's pointing to say anything about what might be wrong?
 
Update #2: The "Ok this is starting to REALLY freak me out" Update -

Check out this screenie:

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But what if it wasn't successful?! The Registry is like....kinda almost important, right?!
 
hmm i do but it's being used on my media drive atm.... I'll try it. The whole computer's going weird. First quicktime .mov files lost their association with Quicktime, then Sin wouldn't load, then there was a random .dll that was stopping my SonicStage program from loading, and now the internet's being really picky about which pages load up and which ones don't. For instance, I can type this, but I can't access my google mail or some other sites..... Do you think it could be connected? I'm really starting to freak out now! On the virge of reformatting!
 
Have a google for MEMTEST and test your ram out over night its possible that your RAM is fryed and is causing the problems. I have experienced similar problems and one of my sticks of ram had died.
 
Make sure you run it all night long so it does an intensive test.

Also Boot from the windows XP CD and press R to enter the command console. Once in the console type chkdsk /R and let it do its thing. but befor you do this make sure you have everything backedup.
 
I see no one has suggested trying chkdsk /r :confused:

Also, double check all the cables especially power one - is that hard disk sharing a p.cable with say a graphics card?
 
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