Event View, Event 11, Disk. Need I worry?

[stduc]

The machine appears to be running fine. The only reason I even looked at Event Viewer was the screen went black until I pressed Ctrl/Alt/Del. I found "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." - Fair enough I thought, then I noticed several disk errors. The are all along the lines of:-

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 during a paging operation.

Instead of DR1 it is sometimes DR2, 4 6 or 7!

Can anyone explain what these mean? The full report is

Log Name: System
Source: Disk
Date: 24/09/2010 13:38:21
Event ID: 11
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: CMaster
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="

http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

<System>
<Provider Name="Disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">11</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-09-24T12:38:21.024847500Z" />
<EventRecordID>33840</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>CMaster</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Harddisk1\DR1</Data>
<Binary>0E04800001000000000000000B0004C003010000000000000000000000082D0000000000000000000FE5110000000000FFFFFFFF060000005800000000000000FF0006120C000010000000003C0000000000000000000000C068290680FAFFFF000000000000000050446A0680FAFFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

I found this link on microsoft, but I can't make head or tail of it!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[linney]

You should check all your hard drives. The hard drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software that is bootable, or that may even run from within Windows, that will thoroughly check the condition of your hard drive.

"In almost all cases, these messages are being posted due to hardware problems with either the controller or, more likely, a device that is attached to the controller in question. The hardware problems can be associated with poor cabling". Quoted from a couple of MSKB about Event ID 11.

 

[stduc]

Hi Linney

Any idea how I can figure out which disk it is talking about? It sometimes mentions DR7 - I don't have 7 disks! I'm wondering if it's talking about USB devices ir perhaps CD-ROMs.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[linney]

I just use Disk Management as a guide. You have a number there beside each Disk in the list. USB drives get a number too, CD-ROM get a number that is prefaced by the words CD-ROM but start at zero again.

 

[G0AOZ]

From my reading of it, I'd say you want to look at hard disk drive 1, bearing in mind hard disk drive 0 will be the first one.

I'm wondering if the 'DR1', 'DR2', etc., refers to DiRectories or folders on that drive. Check to see if you've got any recovered folders named as such.

First priority is to get it backed up, if you've not already done so before running any diags on it.

ROGER - G0AOZ.