KaiserD2 Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 I have a 6 year old HP 735 running Windows XP. The C drive has about 70 gigs of which 30 gigs are empty. Yesterday, a bizarre problem arose, and it's getting curioser and curioser. The problem was in Microsoft Outlook, which announced that it couldn't open the .pst file necessary to read email. Googling, I found that probably meant a bad patch of hard disk. So first I tried a disk clean up, which worked (there wasn't much to do--I had done one recently), and then I tried to defrag, but windows said the defgragmenter wouldn't start. So I searched around and downloaded a free version of diskeeper. And then. .. when I opened diskeeper, it listed two drives I could work on--my backup D drive and my remote hard disk. It didn't list my C drive at all! The computer works fine otherwise and files on the C drive are accessible and movable. Thanks in advance for any help. [email protected] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Have you tried a System Restore to a time before the problem occurred? Or better still do you have a full back up in a program like Acronis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 The first thing you should do when you have a problem of this kind is to make sure that you have a recent, usable backup.Next you should run CHKDSK C: with the /F and /R parameters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 The first thing you should do when you have a problem of this kind is to make sure that you have a recent, usable backup.Next you should run CHKDSK C: with the /F and /R parameters. One thing puzzles me about CHKDSK, when it is finished, if you happen to be watching is flashes up briefly and says that there are no sectors in bad areas, or something like that. If there are in fact bad sectors, would this warning stay there until you have seen it and deleted it, or will it too just disappear? In other words, do you need to sit and watch the whole performance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 No, but this information is also written to a logfile somewhere, but you would have to ask Google where to find this file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Thanks, I have looked and cannot see anything that points to such a file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 I found this via Google...It's located in Event Viewer -> windows protocols -> application, item "wininit". Alternatively, when running next scandisk, just insert USB flash drive before the scan. After Windows 7 reboots, you will find the log file in the root of USB drive.PSMy computer decided to run chkdsk on an external USB drive at start-up a couple of days ago so I followed the above instruction to find the log file. I didn't - there were no entries under winint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 I can't find anything. I don't particularly fancy running CHKDSK with a pen drive inserted in case I bugger up the info on it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Thanks in advance for any help.Was it of any help to you ?John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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