Hi,
hope some of you wonderful people might be able to help me.....
Built a PC for my father about 3 or 4 months ago. Not used very much yet but already broken. As Windows just completly and absolutly refused to load/restore it either has to be software corruption or HDD errors.
i think the HDD is Samsung F3. Its the newer 7200rpm Samsung 500GB drive anyway.
HDD has been removed and put in my computer and the few important files have been copied to my desktop for a later restore.
How do I check now to see whether the HDD is on its last legs or whether it is ok to reformat over?
Ran the Windows Error Checking whilst in my pc and it came back with "some problems were found and fixed " and that the "device is now ready to use".
When I clcik on the see details section it has come back with a huge list of the following three messages;
1. Deleting Corrupt Attribute record (128, "")
From File Segment Record XXXXXX
2.Recovering orphaned file XXXXX into directory file 89459
3. Inserting data attribute into file XXXXXX
Also came up with the following statements
0 bad file records processed
2EA records processed
60 reparse records processed
Computer seemed to go from perfectly file to seriously messed up in one reboot. For £35 or so would rather reinstall on a new HDD than risk going through everything again later if it dies. Anyway I can tell if this is a software or hardware issue? Had a look at the Samsung disk check software but its a dos program that needs to be booted from a floppy drive which i don't have.
PS I can stick a graphics card into a motherboard and swap a hdd out but I'm not exactly techy as you might have guessed.
Thanks in advance for any help
Namak
hope some of you wonderful people might be able to help me.....
Built a PC for my father about 3 or 4 months ago. Not used very much yet but already broken. As Windows just completly and absolutly refused to load/restore it either has to be software corruption or HDD errors.
i think the HDD is Samsung F3. Its the newer 7200rpm Samsung 500GB drive anyway.
HDD has been removed and put in my computer and the few important files have been copied to my desktop for a later restore.
How do I check now to see whether the HDD is on its last legs or whether it is ok to reformat over?
Ran the Windows Error Checking whilst in my pc and it came back with "some problems were found and fixed " and that the "device is now ready to use".
When I clcik on the see details section it has come back with a huge list of the following three messages;
1. Deleting Corrupt Attribute record (128, "")
From File Segment Record XXXXXX
2.Recovering orphaned file XXXXX into directory file 89459
3. Inserting data attribute into file XXXXXX
Also came up with the following statements
0 bad file records processed
2EA records processed
60 reparse records processed
Computer seemed to go from perfectly file to seriously messed up in one reboot. For £35 or so would rather reinstall on a new HDD than risk going through everything again later if it dies. Anyway I can tell if this is a software or hardware issue? Had a look at the Samsung disk check software but its a dos program that needs to be booted from a floppy drive which i don't have.
PS I can stick a graphics card into a motherboard and swap a hdd out but I'm not exactly techy as you might have guessed.
Thanks in advance for any help
Namak
