I have a Tiny computer on which I loaded XP Professional a while ago. Ages ago it started to run the "checking file system on C" on start up occaisonally for no particular reason that I could see. Now it does it all of the time and freezes at random percentage progress levels. I can only run this computer by skipping the check. Now it is getting worse and the system occaisonally crashes to a blue screen and physical memory dump. Does anyone have any ideas?
Disk failure
Sat, 2008-12-13 16:50 by admin
Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but it looks like a progressive hard disk failure to me. From the information I cannot rule out something else, like a RAM (Random Access Memory) failure or a loose contact, but the disk is more likely.
If it is indeed the disk, then the easiest repair path is to swap the hard disk for a new one and reinstall Windows XP on the new disk. Before you do that or afterwards, try to save as much of your data as still possible. I don't think you can salvage the whole installation at this point, as there are already too many data errors on the disk.
Thank you
Sat, 2008-12-13 18:10 by Philip
Thanks Admin. I kind of thought this would be the answer. I have been backing up the data on this machine onto external HDD usinng Second Copy for ages, so it is not the end of the world. Thanks again.