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post #1 of 8
1/19/04 at 4:00am
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my roomate said my system was emanating ear piercing grinding noises the other day. not being very technically savvy and having a tendency to exaggerate, i half took it with a grain of salt, espcially since i've not been able to hear it for myself. but the system did die that evening, now seemingly fixed(or bootable at least) by removing my 7 month old 512mb chip. now trying to back up for the reinstall, i cannot copy to an external fw disk nor burn to cd without error. and when attempting to defrag my disk, it stops at 25%. anyone know of a disk utility to analyze the drive?
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post #2 of 8
1/19/04 at 7:31am
I am not sure anything will work. You might find something useful on http://www.bootdisk.com/

There's lots of others but hard to say what will work.

But screaming grinding noises are definitely not good, not good at all. I don't care how untechnical someone is, those are always bad noises unless you are trying to break something or someone.
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post #3 of 8
1/19/04 at 7:55am
Your computer is now worthless. You can send it to me. I'll take it.


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post #4 of 8
1/19/04 at 11:52am
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$20
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post #5 of 8
1/19/04 at 11:50pm
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Originally Posted by gr8gatzby
my roomate said my system was emanating ear piercing grinding noises the other day. not being very technically savvy and having a tendency to exaggerate, i half took it with a grain of salt, espcially since i've not been able to hear it for myself. but the system did die that evening, now seemingly fixed(or bootable at least) by removing my 7 month old 512mb chip. now trying to back up for the reinstall, i cannot copy to an external fw disk nor burn to cd without error. and when attempting to defrag my disk, it stops at 25%. anyone know of a disk utility to analyze the drive?
Try this from a cmd window
c:\>chkdsk /f
you will then see this
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)
Hit y your gonna then see this
This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts.
Reboot and go get a drink smoke whate have you. I once ran that on an XP box that took 5 hours to finish.
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post #6 of 8
1/20/04 at 12:23am
Each hard drive maker has a test utility to check the status of a hard drive BEFORE you request an RMA. Find out who the maker of your 8887 hard drive is and go to their site. You should find testing software there.

From what you have described it sounds like the drive is dying. Get it up and running long enough to do a back up. Drive Image should work with an external usb hard drive.

Good Luck
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post #7 of 8
1/20/04 at 12:28am
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Originally Posted by pcbunker
Each hard drive maker has a test utility to check the status of a hard drive BEFORE you request an RMA. Find out who the maker of your 8887 hard drive is and go to their site. You should find testing software there.

From what you have described it sounds like the drive is dying. Get it up and running long enough to do a back up. Drive Image should work with an external usb hard drive.

Good Luck
once i was able to get back into winbl0ws, i was finally allowed to run scandisk which found uber errors and seems to have fixed them. all is back to normal, and many things are working better/faster. hopefully the RAM and HDD probs were the only source...
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post #8 of 8
1/20/04 at 1:00am
Just to be safe do a disk to disk back up. If you have an external drive back your main drive up to it.

Cheap insurance just incase.............
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