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joezapp:
This was a very educational post, Boggin! I had a fun couple hours with these tools that I never knew anything about.

Since I realize that the HDD is on limited time, I'll pass on the academic exercise. I'm also skipping HD Sentinel since I'm prepared for HDD failure, but I will keep it in mind for the future.

In Event Viewer I had no Criticals. There were many Errors and I examined them.

The Reliability, Stability, and Failure history were most interesting. I examined each failure and type. Fortunately, many of the applications that failed I am already no longer using.

I believe that I have not lost any data in My Documents...specifically Notepad documents, Word documents, Excel documents, and pictures...as chkdsk has done it's thing. It seems these haven't been affected. But what do I look for to know for sure? What would be the Source code for any Error documents in Event Viewer? Or maybe that would qualify as Critical?

Thanks so much...

 

Boggin:
Sudden shutdowns are the usual listed Critical.

Can you post the out put of the chkdsk /r.

You can do this by when you are viewing it, click on Copy/Copy details as text in the lower right pane then right click in the reply box and select Paste.

For some reason that I don't understand it duplicates the report in the reply box, so perhaps you could edit that before posting.

If all of your programs work and your files are intact, they may not have been in the bad sectors and the /r bit repairs any system files as required and moves them to undamaged areas of the disk.

If when you click on the blue online help link for each Error and that doesn't take you to the tech library, you will be prompted to enter the details into the search box which will take you onto some associated links which may fit your exact Event Viewer Error - else, a Google may produce more links.

As for applications you no longer use, if they are for programs that you have previously uninstalled, active remnants of them may remain in the registry to trigger those entries.

joezapp:
Hi Boggin

I've had some sudden shutdowns, but they must not have been critical.

Yes, all programs work and all files do seem intact. I have no reason to believe, based on checking all the errors, that they are not intact. It does seem that chkdsk has only repaired system files, so that is good news. I'll go on the presumption that my backed-up document data is accurate. That is what is most important to me. Thanks so much for your help!

Boggin:
Well, that should at least keep it going for a while longer, but I'd still install the free trial of HD Sentinel to keep an eye on things now and again.

On the odd occasion I install it from the Application.exe in my Downloads folder, I uninstall it until the next time so that the clock isn't ticking on it.

joezapp:
Very interesting, Boggin. So there is a certain amount of time for the free trial, and the clock only runs when the program is in use/installed? And is the free trial IP address specific, or is it based on a userID and password? Thanks...   

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