TSGL: eek! I think I'm about to have a HD failure!

[EDLYNN]

Pause and think!!!

If you ghost copy, clone, image your problem drive, with the intention of 
restoring on a good drive, just what will you restore??? Yup, all the bad 
stuff, too.
If you believe that the HDD is going, the backup to be concerned about is 
everything except the system and appplications. You then can format the new 
HDD with your OS disc, and add whatever apps you want - lengthy, but clean.

Sorry, I can't even start on your problems, so thought it best to try to 
have you avoid new ones.

ED

The image backup of system, apps, and data works when the picture was clean.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "luminosity" <luminosity at jam.rr.com>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: TSGL: eek! I think I'm about to have a HD failure!


> Hi y'all,
>
> The other day I decided (I don't know now whether it was exceedingly
> foolish or seredipitously wise) to install a hardware check program,
> which I have since uninstalled (HDInspector).  I ran the check, and my
> three physical HD's came up--2 healthy, with a warning that my 250gb
> drive was running at 130 degrees, and I should buy another fan, and my
> C:drive came up as 100% working but "unreliable."   I'm not surprised.
> I have had that drive sans errors running for about 60,000 hours. So,
> today I buy a new hard drive and a fan, right?  But wait there's more!
>
> The first problem popped up when I had to reboot my computer immediately
> after I got that message.  It usually takes Windows XP about 90 seconds
> to boot up.  This took ten minutes.  It did boot, though.
>
> The second problem popped up when I tried to switch to another user.  My
> husband and I have separate accounts on here.  I'm "me," and he's "you,"
> easy enough.  His desktop wallpaper came up after over ten minutes, and
> then no icons or taskbar at all.  The task manager wouldn't even come
> up. So, I shut down.
>
> I rebooted to last known good configuration.  Took *ages*.   Then I got
> a blue screen of death that I couldn't read at all because it flashed by
> so quickly.
>
> Finally, after another ten-minute reboot, I was able to boot to my
> account.  I got a winlogon error (which I'm assuming could have been the
> BSOD error as well, but it's only an assumption).
>
> I'm going to run a chkdsk now, and I'm backing up everything on my C:
> drive, and I do mean everything.
>
> I've never (*stop laughing!* :)  ) had to restore a drive by myself.
> I've always just...started over.
>
> My questions are:  Am I doing the right thing now?  Is it possible for
> me to *ghost* the entire drive to another healthy drive and have
> everything work, thereby not having to go spend $100 today on a new
> HD?   I have an 80gb drive that I could certainly split out into two
> virtual drives, right?
>
> I'm sure I have other questions that I'm too ignorant to ask right now,
> and I'm afraid that y'all are going to have every answer I need, but my
> HD will have died by the time y'all's help comes around.  So, just in
> case, I'm going to put my other address here, and when things settle,
> I'll just change my group mail address to gmail.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Lum (luminosity.deville AT gmail DOT com)
>
> OH! Here's what I have.
>
> Windows XP Pro SP2
> AMD Athlon 64 Processor
> 3200+
> 2.01Ghz, 1 GB RAM
> Physical Address Extension (I don't know what that means)
>
> Three physical HD's 40gb, 80gb, 250gb
>
> Application errors this morning from my event viewer:
>
> Windows cannot access the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll for one
> of the following reasons:  there is a problem with the network
> connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers
> installed on this computer; or the disk is missing.  Windows closed the
> program Microsoft UxTheme Library because of this error.
>
> Program: Microsoft UxTheme Library
> File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\uxtheme.dll
> The error value is listed in the Additional Data section.
> User Action
>
> (I don't know what this is, but it came up three times)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Fault bucket 00470146.
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Faulting application winlogon.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
> uxtheme.dll, version 6.0.2900.2180, fault address 0x0002ad65.
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> That's everything I can think of, short of my home phone number.  :)
> Thank you again.
>
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