Windows xp checking disk for consistency

I've included a current HijackThis report - any advice will be appreciated. Gawain Logfile of HijackThis v1. Joined Sep 8, Messages 11, Howdy, Does your Hard drive seem noisier than before Thanks, bonk. I haven't noticed that the hard drive is noisier than usual and most of my important data is already backed up but I'll complete that. From your reply I get the impression that my hard drive might need to be replaced soon? Best to always be prepared in any case. You could go to the manufactures site of your Hard drive and use their diagnostics tools to test the drive.

When it does a check disk does it do all the 5 stages? Have you Defrag lately? Joined Jul 14, Messages 3, You can download diagnostics from your hard drive manufacturers web site and run them on your drive, and that might give you a more devinitive answer. But the truth is that a hard drive failure is not an "If", it's a "When". That's one of the reasons they say data that is not backed up is data that you don't want to keep. Thanks for the suggestions. I've run disk check and the results say no problems.

I ran defrag analysis and it said that defragging wasn't necessary but I'll do it anyway. I've located the manufacturer's website and downloaded a diagnostic tool and will run it. I'll get back to you with the results. Hello bonk and bbearen: I ran disk check and it said that my files, folders and free space are okay and then gave a list of numerical information.

The disk defrag ran fine as well. I've looked for a diagnostic for it but can't seem to find one. The main Hitachi site seems to advertise the company and other sites are in languages I don't understand. If you could direct me to a website that has a diagnostic tool for this brand, I'd appreciate it.

I downloaded an hdd diagnostic utility and followed the instructions. When I re-booted my computer with the utility on a floppy I assume that it ran for I saw no message that indicated a problem or otherwise. As the computer rebooted there was blue pane in the lower right tool bar but it disappeared.

Should there have been more than this? For now, my hdd seems to be working okay but I have sense that it's on borrowed time. Click to see the comparison of different license types and click on the corresponding button to buy. Free Download. Download the software and run the setup program to install the data recovery software to your computer. You need to specify the type of the disk needs to be scanned. At this time, you must select the one on which the error message appears.

You may browse the scan results during or at the end of the scan. Click to tweet. How to recover data from non-booting computer? Of course, you also need to choose a license type for it. The trial edition is not suitable anymore in this case since it is only able to scan the files for you, not recover.

Please install the Personal Edition to another computer that works fine. Restart your computer and press corresponding button to enter the BIOS. Then, change the boot order of your computer to make this boot disk the first boot device. After that, exit BIOS and save changes. At this time, you may choose to change the screen resolution or not. In reply to KinaPO's post on June 6, How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

In reply to A. User's post on June 6, For example, to query the dirty bit on drive C, type: fsutil dirty query C: Sample output: Volume C: is dirty Volume C: is not dirty Is your drive dirty or is it not dirty? Type 'exit' to close the command prompt window.