TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems

[Russell W. Coover]

Tilman,

Of course I am not certain, but it appears that you have at least one, and
possibly numerous viruses and/or Trojans. I can't imagine a hardware failure
that could or would cause the problems you are having.  

Did your fresh install include a complete format of all hard drives in your
computer? Since the problem may be caused by something on a secondary drive,
you may want to remove all drives except for your boot drive and any extra
partitions on your boot drive and reinstall Windows on a freshly formatted
drive. Run that for a couple of days before you place any other hard drives
back in your computer to see if the problem continues without them. 

And if you don't trust your software for any reason, don't install it
without testing it with an updated Anti-Virus scan. You might want to test
it online with something like "Housecall" from TrendMicro ...

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

I realize that what I have suggested is drastic, but it appears you have a
drastic problem. I think you need a drastic solution. I hope I am wrong.  

Russ Coover

 

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Tilman Brandl
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:13 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems

Hi,

I'm not getting happy with my new PC - bought in Nov 07, applied a fresh 
install of XP prp sp2 - since then there's trouble.

***** Question: CAN any kind of 'standard' software (if there is such thing)

damage my machine's HDDs ?


That's all I want to know just now, the rest is for the curious of you, and 
not the faint at heart ;-)
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I'm asking the above, because I'm running into a new (or old) problem nearly

each day.

- XP Firewall is getting set to OFF after reboot
- can't install different programs - last one was BitDefender
- machine reboots a few times each day, asks to run chkdsk afterwards and 
sometimes finds/repairs defective entries + indices on system + program 
partitions
- errors show up in taskbar: "...file xxxxxx corrupt: Run chkdsk to repair 
.... " saw it a few times, sometimes it stopped an installation. This is the

first time I've EVER seen those

What I've done:
* Ran chkdsk on all drives,
* Sofar I've been running AVG free with updated definitions nearly each day,

rarely was there anything worth mentioning, and what was found were mostly 
old finactive files somewhere stored away in a .zip or such.

A while ago I had lots of reboots, which stopped after I tweaked a 
timings-setting in Bios (w/o really knowing WHAT to tweak)

In the works:
Currently I'm running a thorough check with adaware - a first smart scan 
only found 2 old favorites, marked as malware (removed it) and the usual 
collection of tracking cookies (left them)

Will do more checks, if I can install another antivirus program.

I really wónder if this all is normal windows trouble, a 3rd-party software 
thing (any drivers...) or actually hardware related, like my old Sata-HDD 
dying (this one isn't old, just 1/2 year at max). The second Sata-HDD is 
brand new
<sigh>

Tilman 


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