Well recently my 10 gig hard drive which i have had for about 2 years began acting funny, It will make a "clicking" noise, and It will completely freeze in windows. So I took out that hard drive, afraid that it will die completely. So I installed a new hard drive which is the same brand as the big one (Western Digital) And I installed the same windows and everything as the other hard drive. And the other day it did the same thing, began clicking and running VERY VERY slow in windows, so I reset my PC and when i did windows didnt load, I got an error saying it couldnt initialize VKD, An error with the registry, and a stack overflow....
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you havn't got a virus have you .... just a though I can't think of anything else that would do that apart from a faulty drive ..... You know westerndigital havn't got a really good reputation unless they have got better these days .....
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mudskipper
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Sounds like a bad drive still.
Device VKD is the virtual keyboard device. MS says that this is A) Keyboard B) Keyboard controller on Motherboard, or C) Keyboard drivers.
In real life, however, we almost always find that the device vkd is failing because of a bad sector on the hard drive. That, in conjunction with your other symptoms is enough for me to be pretty certain that your west dig is going out.
And incidentally, a virus will not make a hard drive click. This is a mechanical problem.
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Device VKD is the virtual keyboard device. MS says that this is A) Keyboard B) Keyboard controller on Motherboard, or C) Keyboard drivers.
In real life, however, we almost always find that the device vkd is failing because of a bad sector on the hard drive. That, in conjunction with your other symptoms is enough for me to be pretty certain that your west dig is going out.
And incidentally, a virus will not make a hard drive click. This is a mechanical problem.
Sorry to deliver the bad news!
Well you could well just be unlucky, and gotten a faulty drive, No Manufacturer has a 100% success rate.
Are you 100% sure it was the hard drive that was clicking though ? - not the cpu fan or something, an overheated CPU could well slow down and then just bomb out.
Are you 100% sure it was the hard drive that was clicking though ? - not the cpu fan or something, an overheated CPU could well slow down and then just bomb out.
mudskipper
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Well, Grenage,you have a VERY valid point about the fans clicking, etc.....however....
Sloth101, you still REALLY need to check that drive with a surface scan....That VKD error is really most often a bad sector!!
Sloth101, you still REALLY need to check that drive with a surface scan....That VKD error is really most often a bad sector!!
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