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joezapp:
Hi. I used the windows repair tool on my old XP, and it went wonderfully. It fixed the 9 pre-scan errors, I ran the repair tool,  and the computer is running very nicely. I didn't have as good an experience on my Vista. The situations going into the repairs were 1) NO pre-scan errors, 2) 12kb bad sectors on the disk (nothing new), 3) sfc shows some irreparable items (nothing new). My experience after running the repair tool is that Vista booted up VERY fast, which was nice. The problem, though, is that immediately after boot-up, the computer would freeze. After many forced shutdowns and reboots, it became apparent that this wouldn't go away, so I had to resort to system restore. I had to try a few different restore points to get the computer to work properly again. For the record, my computer has been freezing about once a day for 6 months.

It was SO disappointing that the computer became non-functional after such a wonderfully fast boot-up, and after the repair tool worked so well on my XP. I'm afraid to try it again, but I thought I should post in case this is a familiar problem with an easy resolution. Many thanks...   

Julian:

--- Quote from: joezapp on June 18, 2015, 09:23:01 pm --- 2) 12kb bad sectors on the disk (nothing new),

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That is a dying hard drive Joezapp. I would recommend in buying a new hard drive back up your old drive and clone it on the new drive.
If you need steps in doing this let me know I can help you out.  :smiley:

Boggin:
A chkdsk /r may get you some respite but in doing so, some data can be lost - so you should make a system image before running that - but you should do so in any case in preparation for complete HDD failure.

Event Viewer should tell you which applications are failing and the trial version of HD Sentinel can give you an estimation of life expectancy for the HDD.

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

joezapp:
Thanks, Julian. Yes, I saw the writing on the wall, so I have backed everything up and picked up another computer. I will be moving my files to the other computer. This one is still functional, though, so I can make some use of it 'til the HD dies.

Thanks, Boggin. I've used Event Viewer so far to view the files that have been deleted and recovered by chkdsk. These files are unrecognizable, but it seems to delete and recover the same files. I'd be very interested to know which applications are failing, as maybe I can delete them altogether. How exactly can I utilize Event Viewer to see the specific applications that are failing? Thanks so much...   

Boggin:
For both Critical and Error - click on each as applicable then on Show All Instances of This Event in the lower right pane and clicking on each in the upper pane will give a brief description in the lower one with an Event ID.

If MS tech library has anything on it, it will display when you click on the blue online help link.

To post any of the Event IDs, click on each then on Copy/Copy details as text in the lower right pane then right click in the reply box and select Paste.

Not sure if Vista has Reliability history, but in Win 7 go Start - start to type reliability and View reliability history should be highlighted to press enter or click on.

That will list anything that hasn't been working when you click on a red cross and sometimes clicking on the tech info link can give some info, but it never has for IE has stopped working, so I wouldn't hold your breath on that but if it lists problem items then at least you will see what is problematic.

I don't know why chkdsk /r is continually repairing the same files unless it doesn't have anywhere to put the repaired files, but as you have run a sfc /scannow, copy & paste this command at an elevated command prompt and then you can post the CBS log - but as the HDD is on its way to being goosed, then that may just be an academic exercise.

findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt"

Did you try the trial version of HD Sentinel to see its prediction ?

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