Jump to content

Event Viewer error

Guest Teriel9
Guest Teriel9
in Tech Help and Discussions

Guest, which answer was the most helpful?

If any of these replies answered your question, please take a moment to click the 'Mark as solution' button on the post with the best answer.
Marking posts as the solution will help other community members find answers to their questions quickly. Thank you for your help!

Featured Replies

Posted

For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time I

start the computer for that day.

I ran chkdsk /f a week ago and it found an error and fixed it, I have since

run it and it finds no errors.

On the 30th June I looked at tne Event Viewer and found 346 consecutive

errors all with the same problem "Bad block on Harddisk 0"

Is this likely to be a true error?

I have not shut down since then as I fear the computer may not restart.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Teriel9

 

--

All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

Please advise any virus that gets through

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Sorry forgot to add the info

    Win XP2 Home

    1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

    8 kilobyte primary memory cache

    256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

     

    Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6534

    Bus Clock: 100 megahertz

    BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/28/2001

     

    -- 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

    19.11 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    512 Megabytes Installed Memory

     

    Teriel9

     

    All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    Please advise any virus that gets through

    "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    news:e0s4mgJvHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

    > For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time I

    > start the computer for that day.

    > I ran chkdsk /f a week ago and it found an error and fixed it, I have

    > since run it and it finds no errors.

    > On the 30th June I looked at tne Event Viewer and found 346 consecutive

    > errors all with the same problem "Bad block on Harddisk 0"

    > Is this likely to be a true error?

    > I have not shut down since then as I fear the computer may not restart.

    > Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

    > Thanks in advance

    > Teriel9

    >

    > --

    > All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    > Please advise any virus that gets through

    >

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    I would try HD Tune (freeware).

    Download and run it and see what it turns up.

    http://www.hdtune.com/

     

    Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive

    letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )

    and copy into a further message.

     

    Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy

    to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface

    scan with HD Tune.

     

     

     

    --

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Gerry

    ~~~~

    FCA

    Stourport, England

    Enquire, plan and execute

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

    "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    news:usctf2JvHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

    > Sorry forgot to add the info

    > Win XP2 Home

    > 1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

    > 8 kilobyte primary memory cache

    > 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

    >

    > Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6534

    > Bus Clock: 100 megahertz

    > BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/28/2001

    >

    > -- 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

    > 19.11 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    > 512 Megabytes Installed Memory

    >

    > Teriel9

    >

    > All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    > Please advise any virus that gets through

    > "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    > news:e0s4mgJvHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

    >> For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each

    >> time I start the computer for that day.

    >> I ran chkdsk /f a week ago and it found an error and fixed it, I have

    >> since run it and it finds no errors.

    >> On the 30th June I looked at tne Event Viewer and found 346

    >> consecutive errors all with the same problem "Bad block on Harddisk

    >> 0"

    >> Is this likely to be a true error?

    >> I have not shut down since then as I fear the computer may not

    >> restart.

    >> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

    >> Thanks in advance

    >> Teriel9

    >>

    >> --

    >> All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    >> Please advise any virus that gets through

    >>

    >

    >

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Thanks Gerry, I'll try it.

    Teriel9

     

    --

    All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    Please advise any virus that gets through

    "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message

    news:ei9N5KKvHHA.4520@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

    >I would try HD Tune (freeware).

    > Download and run it and see what it turns up.

    > http://www.hdtune.com/

    >

    > Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive

    > letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )

    > and copy into a further message.

    >

    > Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy

    > to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface

    > scan with HD Tune.

    >

    >

    >

    > --

    >

    > Hope this helps.

    >

    > Gerry

    > ~~~~

    > FCA

    > Stourport, England

    > Enquire, plan and execute

    > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    >

    > "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    > news:usctf2JvHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

    >> Sorry forgot to add the info

    >> Win XP2 Home

    >> 1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

    >> 8 kilobyte primary memory cache

    >> 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

    >>

    >> Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6534

    >> Bus Clock: 100 megahertz

    >> BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/28/2001

    >>

    >> -- 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

    >> 19.11 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    >> 512 Megabytes Installed Memory

    >>

    >> Teriel9

    >>

    >> All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    >> Please advise any virus that gets through

    >> "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    >> news:e0s4mgJvHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

    >>> For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time

    >>> I start the computer for that day.

    >>> I ran chkdsk /f a week ago and it found an error and fixed it, I have

    >>> since run it and it finds no errors.

    >>> On the 30th June I looked at tne Event Viewer and found 346 consecutive

    >>> errors all with the same problem "Bad block on Harddisk 0"

    >>> Is this likely to be a true error?

    >>> I have not shut down since then as I fear the computer may not restart.

    >>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

    >>> Thanks in advance

    >>> Teriel9

    >>>

    >>> --

    >>> All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    >>> Please advise any virus that gets through

    >>>

    >>

    >>

    >

    >

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Teriel9 wrote:

    >

    > For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time I

    > start the computer for that day.

     

    Sounds like its time to buy a new hard drive.

     

    --

    http://www.bootdisk.com/

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Hi Plato,

    Thats what I thought, however chkdsk found some file data errors and

    corrected them, my event viewer is now completely clear of errors.

    I hope my luck will hold.

    Thanks for your input

    Teriel9

     

    --

    All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    Please advise any virus that gets through

    "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message

    news:4689deb5$1$246$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com...

    > Teriel9 wrote:

    >>

    >> For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time

    >> I

    >> start the computer for that day.

    >

    > Sounds like its time to buy a new hard drive.

    >

    > --

    > http://www.bootdisk.com/

    >

    >

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Hi Garry,

    Many thanks for your help, HDTune found nothing but chkdsk did find file

    data errors, event viewer is now clear of errors.

    Thanks again

    Teriel9

     

     

    --

    All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    Please advise any virus that gets through

    "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message

    news:ei9N5KKvHHA.4520@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

    >I would try HD Tune (freeware).

    > Download and run it and see what it turns up.

    > http://www.hdtune.com/

    >

    > Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive

    > letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )

    > and copy into a further message.

    >

    > Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy

    > to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface

    > scan with HD Tune.

    >

    >

    >

    > --

    >

    > Hope this helps.

    >

    > Gerry

    > ~~~~

    > FCA

    > Stourport, England

    > Enquire, plan and execute

    > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    >

    > "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    > news:usctf2JvHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

    >> Sorry forgot to add the info

    >> Win XP2 Home

    >> 1.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

    >> 8 kilobyte primary memory cache

    >> 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

    >>

    >> Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6534

    >> Bus Clock: 100 megahertz

    >> BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 09/28/2001

    >>

    >> -- 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity

    >> 19.11 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    >> 512 Megabytes Installed Memory

    >>

    >> Teriel9

    >>

    >> All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    >> Please advise any virus that gets through

    >> "Teriel9" <terry@teriel-consultants.co.uk> wrote in message

    >> news:e0s4mgJvHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

    >>> For a little while now I have had 2 errors showing a bad block each time

    >>> I start the computer for that day.

    >>> I ran chkdsk /f a week ago and it found an error and fixed it, I have

    >>> since run it and it finds no errors.

    >>> On the 30th June I looked at tne Event Viewer and found 346 consecutive

    >>> errors all with the same problem "Bad block on Harddisk 0"

    >>> Is this likely to be a true error?

    >>> I have not shut down since then as I fear the computer may not restart.

    >>> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

    >>> Thanks in advance

    >>> Teriel9

    >>>

    >>> --

    >>> All our emails are scanned by Norton Antivirus before sending

    >>> Please advise any virus that gets through

    >>>

    >>

    >>

    >

    >

  • Quote
  • Mark as Solution
    •

    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Reply to this topic...
    Go to topic listing