Re: Upcoming Hard Drive Failure?

Jason Ducharme <jaydude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> Jason Ducharme <jaydude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

>>> I bought this notebook brand new 6 months ago. It's an ACER Aspire
>>> 3003WLCi. Recently I've had a lot of problems with applications
>>> "not responding" and having to be closed. Upon reboot recently i'm
>>> getting the message that one of my hard disks needs to be checked
>>> for conisistency. It does a checkup of the disk (takes a long
>>> time) and then it reports that "Windows replaced bad clusters in
>>> file .... " Does this mean that my hard drive is failing (has
>>> failed?) and needs to be rebuilt/replaced?

>> Maybe, bit early to say yet. It could just be due to not shutting down
>> properly.

>>> Should I contact ACER about this problem (I
>>> think I have 1 year warranty on the machine.)

>> Yes.

> I never just power off the computer. I always fight with it to close the
> unresposive applications and shut down using the regular method
> (start/shutdown/restart.)

OK, that's definitely the problem.

You dont say which OS you are using, if it came
with XP installed, I've never seen that with XP.

Its pretty common with 98SE tho.

> Well, I'm not getting any clicking or other noises.

> I don't recall this happening immediately after doing any changes or
> installations on the system, but at around the same time, I have
> added an Epson C45 inkjet printer and installed the software and
> drivers, as well as installing MS Visual Studio .NET. Again, i
> don't recall the problems occurring immediately after either of those
> events, but it seems to have all started happening at around the same
> time (memory is a bit fuzzy.)

Yeah, I havent seen any problem with MS Visual Studio
..NET producing that result with XP. I have seen quite a
few problems with 98SE and shutdown tho.

Its not strictly speaking a warranty problem if its due to
what you have done to the system since you bought it.

I wont make any further comments until you say
which OS is involved other than to say that this
has some pretty decent lists of the issues involved.
http://aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm


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