DPChallenge: A Digital Photography Contest You are not logged in. (log in or register
 

Threads will be shown in descending order for the remainder of this session. To permanently display posts in this order, adjust your preferences.
DPChallenge Forums >> General Discussion >> Need some help: System disk with bad blocks
Pages:  
Showing posts 1 - 16 of 16, descending (reverse)
AuthorThread
12/25/2016 12:05:51 AM · #1
Rockin!
Enjoy the greatly enhanced speed!
12/24/2016 04:32:07 PM · #2
Sweet shot! Merry Christmas Henk-Jan!
12/24/2016 03:39:30 PM · #3
Originally posted by pixelpig:

A new disk & a bottle of wine!




It helped! It's finally up and running again!
12/21/2016 05:18:21 PM · #4
clean install, first choice
12/21/2016 05:12:07 PM · #5
Originally posted by kirbic:

With regard to that drive, it's very possible that the symptom will recur. It is also possible that it will not do so soon. I think that were it my drive, I would take this opportunity to replace it with solid state. Big gain in speed.


Disk (solid state) ordered. I took the opportunity! It will arrive tomorrow. Hesitating between a clean windows install (and reinstall a lot of apps) or just a copy of my current drive (problems are not solved, but it's still working).
12/20/2016 07:47:11 PM · #6
With regard to that drive, it's very possible that the symptom will recur. It is also possible that it will not do so soon. I think that were it my drive, I would take this opportunity to replace it with solid state. Big gain in speed.
12/20/2016 07:29:54 PM · #7
Originally posted by GeneralE:

You should read a story by Theodore Sturgeon called "Uncle Fremmis" (in one of his collections) ...


Or anything else by Sturgeon, for that matter :-)

ETA: Uncle Fremmis is in "Sturgeon is Alive and Well", a collection published in 1971

Message edited by author 2016-12-20 19:32:26.
12/20/2016 07:27:20 PM · #8
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

Better to do percussive maintenance with the appropriate tool, too!!

I had a Mac Quadra 840av with a hard drive suffering from "stiction" -- to get it to boot up I'd have to give it a good whack on the side ...

Sounds like what Penny has to do to me every morning to get MY system booted up :-)

You should read a story by Theodore Sturgeon called "Uncle Fremmis" (in one of his collections) ...
12/20/2016 07:07:53 PM · #9
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by pixelpig:

Better to do percussive maintenance with the appropriate tool, too!!

I had a Mac Quadra 840av with a hard drive suffering from "stiction" -- to get it to boot up I'd have to give it a good whack on the side ...

Sounds like what Penny has to do to me every morning to get MY system booted up :-)
12/20/2016 06:42:59 PM · #10
Originally posted by pixelpig:

Better to do percussive maintenance with the appropriate tool, too!!

I had a Mac Quadra 840av with a hard drive suffering from "stiction" -- to get it to boot up I'd have to give it a good whack on the side ...
12/20/2016 05:27:14 PM · #11
Good news. It's always better to be able to shop around than to do an emergency repair/restore. Better to do percussive maintenance with the appropriate tool, too!!
12/20/2016 04:33:08 PM · #12
Originally posted by pixelpig:

A new disk & a bottle of wine!


Going to follow that advice tomorrow! Everything is fine now. Even my toe :) PC is up now for almost an hour
12/20/2016 04:20:50 PM · #13
A new disk & a bottle of wine!
12/20/2016 04:19:58 PM · #14
Is your toe OK?
12/20/2016 03:24:34 PM · #15
Lol, I didn't follow one advice ( "Keep calm" ) . Gave a good kick to that stupid thing after a few hours. It jumped to 100% complete and I'm up and running again (at least for now). But perhaps it's time to buy a new disk...
12/20/2016 02:37:27 PM · #16
OS: Windows 10 Professional
Symptom: System automatically reboots several times a day
Event log: There seems to be bad blocks on my system disk
Solution: Run chkdsk /r
Current status: It keeps saying "Scanning and repairing drive (C:): 11% complete"

Lots of answers on the internet, but it's hard to judge which one is right.

Any one here who can give me some advice/clues what to do now?

BTW. I'm not worrying about my photos. They're on another disk and well backuped.
I think that's good, but I need a working system to access them and all my software is on the system disk

Best advice I found until now: Take a drink, let it run, get some sleep and have a fresh look in the morning ;)
Pages:  
Current Server Time: 03/28/2024 08:10:41 PM

Please log in or register to post to the forums.


Home - Challenges - Community - League - Photos - Cameras - Lenses - Learn - Prints! - Help - Terms of Use - Privacy - Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 03/28/2024 08:10:41 PM EDT.