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Thanks for the suggestions. The file size to 0 issue will remain a mystery. My archive CD's had the complete files on them and all is good. Accessing the files from the server itself made no difference. The permissions were ok and the files were not marked System, Read-Only or Hidden. Hope...

Roger, That is my only complaint with SpinRite - slow. I would be interested to see what MHDD could do to the drive. It is kind of funny, but I have been hoping for a bad drive to try MHDD on?! We have none in the shop right now to even play with. I am sure one will come along soon. John

Wolluf, Great suggestion. I will try that today as I have not worked on the issue yet (on vacation). I will post back with what I find. Happy New Year. John

brady12345, Does the user always plug in the drive in the same location. My question is two fold. 1. Same USB port, etc. Sames results with all of the ports on the laptop? 2. Is he physically in the same place when the drive does not work. If this is the issue it could be because the...

I think everyone is on the right track here. Here are my two cents: 1. UPS w/ AVR. Need it - gotta have it. I like CyberPower. 2. If you PC is a consumer PC (Office Depot, Best Buy, etc.) and you have added more components to it (HDD, add-in cards, etc.) you probably need a newer, more...

Roger, You could try SPINRITE. See grc.com. This tool may give you some insite into the drives issues (and even possibly repair it). Sounds like a corrupt BIOS or controller acting up. Maybe MHDD would help. See: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ Let us know what you...

First guess, sound like the main board. (could also be the power supply - although you say you get power, but no post or the power switch itself (old DELLs have this issue a lot)). Try to remove everything from the mainboard (including RAM (I am assuming you have DIMMs since your computer is...

Just looking for a suggestion on what may have caused a weird occurance with some data on our Windows XP Peer server. We have Windows XP Professional computer which acts as our file server for our small workgroup network. We organize our data by year and then into subfolders. At the end of...

Still working on this issue. I am going to spend some time on it over the weekend. I will post back with my results. Thanks again for all who provided help and suggestions. John

technome, Thanks for the Microsoft Link. I will review it tonights. To answer you question, CHKDSK is reporting the drive having 10GB of useable space. Any thoughts? Thanks. John

lwcomputing, Nice page reference. I will be using some of your suggestions on this and other servers. I appreciate the help. John

All, I appreciate all the posts as they are all relevant to the situation. Thank you for taking time in posting/replying. Just some clarifications on some of the posts…. 1. I could move SQL server. The real issue is a specialized application that has to run from C:. It does some custom...

All, I have reviewed the posts here and see some similar situations. I am posting this to see if my problem is unique or if I am going to be stuck with a reinstallation. I am trying to resize the boot drive (C:) of a Windows 2000 server. The server was configured a long time ago and now we...

acewarlock, According to one post... This is usually due to an error in the boot.ini file. The entry for XP is either missing or incorrect. Edit the boot.ini file and check the entry for NT is correct, for example for an IDE disk the entry should look something like...

Tiggertoo, Here is a totally free option. It is an old piece of software but should get the job done for you. Make sure you keep an original on your computer and encrypt a copy. http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=19970210_03 I am not sure if there is a craker...

acewarlock, Download and run your manufacturers hard disk drive diagnostics. I would say that 70% of the time we run into this issue it is drive related (read error, bad sector, etc.). Post back if you need more help with this. Good Luck. John

mofusjtf, I think all the posts here are on target. I use dseaver's suggestion of CCleaner alot. You can also take a look at Steven Gould's Cleanup. In tandem (Cleanup & CCleaner), with Microsoft Disk Cleanup you should get just about everything you want gone - unfortunately not...

90971111, The ATI icon in your tray is most likely the ATI Catalyst Control Center. This software can usually be removed from Add/Remove programs and is not needed. The control center gives you a control panel for some of the advanced features of your video card (and it does suck up some...

amansandhu, It is not a free solution, but it may save you some trouble and time (for not much money). We have used www.driveragent.com in the past with a lot of success. You can do a free inventory to see if it can find what you are looking for. Hope this helps. John

I think IllogicallyLogical is on to the right answer with the USB keyboard. Just a simple FYI here as I do not know your technical level. If your computer will support (and you have one) simply plug in a PS2 keyboard and see if this makes a difference. Make sure that the computer is off when...