Windows XP Disk Check

[Dreadson]

I was listening to music in Media Player when my computer completely froze and would only respond to the reset switch. Well when I reset my computer, I took a look in the folder I was playing the music from - "Downloads", and there were some files and folders with strange names and random sizes. So I restarted and did disk check. Well it detects all the errors in that folder and says they "will be truncated", but freezes when it says:

\Downloads\ entry is not valid

is cross-linked on allocation unit 655360

It says it just like that and stays there forever. I don't know that the problem is, any suggestions?

 

[mainegeek]

Dreadson,
If it were me, I would delete the "funky looking" files and folders, re-run disk check and run an "up-to-date" virus scan.

 

[zxor38]

agrees with mainegeek

 

[jimbuddy]

i would delete the files in question and run a chkdsk on that drive. if my memory is correct the allocation unit is refering to sectors of the drive that could be going bad.

chkdsk /f and then defrag

hope this helps

 

[Dreadson]

I tried to delete them, but it gives the message: "Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk." I also ran Trend Micro online virus scan a week ago, but I'll try it again.

 

[garebo]

You may have to go to safe mode to delete those files. Generally you get them when part of the hard drive is bad. Has the computer received a "bump" lately, or been moved, something that would give it a jolt? Have to ask, sorry.

However, what you really should do is copy the files that you can copy that you do want and reformat the drive. You will likely find there are bad sectors, but maybe not, could have been a virus. And, it could have been bad power, yes bad power, the power coming out of our walls is from fair to very poor, very rare is it real good. And this can cause the problem too. Its a momentary brown-out or even a surge and they play havoc with hard drives, even kill them dead. It could have been that is what happened to you as i used to get that a lot until i read a lot and decided to install a UPS on all my computers. Since then i have never had the prob you are talking about, so my last bout with that prob was win98se, thats how long its been,lol.
If you do save some files from that drive be sure to run a virus check on them, before transfer and after!
You can even go to trend-micro and they will do an online scan of any drive you want, thats only for virus and trojans, wont fix bad sectors.
Good luck.


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[wolluf]

Fat32 or ntfs?

Would tend to agree with Garebo - backup, reformat and reinstall. If you've got filestore problems that chkdsk can't resolve now, its only likely to get worse. I'd also run drive manufacturer's diagnostic (usually on their website) to check drive is ok.

PS. If you are on fat32 and do reinstall, I'd use ntfs, as it has much better recovery features than fat32 (though if you're already on ntfs, you probably won't think so!)

 

[garebo]

(though if you're already on ntfs, you probably won't think so!)"

I gotta agree, but just the way you said that is kinda funny.


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