docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2006-07-01 02:11 am

Curiouser and curiouser

I just put the just today kaput C drive in this machine as a slave to see what I could salvage and the answer is pretty much everything. So easily was I able to do so, I decided to run a disk check on it. The results were no file system errors and not one bad sector. So what the hell happened?

answer

[identity profile] katharinakatt.livejournal.com 2006-07-01 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Windoze

[identity profile] hanksterz.livejournal.com 2006-07-01 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Save all the important stuff on it, just incase. Here's hoping you have no more probs.
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[identity profile] helen99.livejournal.com 2006-07-01 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the boot file somehow got dinged, or there's a boot sector virus. This may leave the actual physical sectors of the disk intact, but eat system files necessary for bootup.

Then again, like [livejournal.com profile] katharinakatt said, it could be a Windows problem on that disk. I plan to get a spare external disk and just back everything up periodically, since the larger disks and faster computers seem a bit less reliable than the old clunkers were.

When in doubt

[identity profile] rexsauren.livejournal.com 2006-07-02 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Assign the problem to "Operator Error"