TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems

[Tilman Brandl]

John,

>Try running online checks for Virus, Boot Sector virus, Rootkits.
    yep - that's still my first priority and what I'm trying just now. AVG 
today has found a Java/ByteVerify virus - I'm trying to get rid of it and 
continue testing.

>Try FixBoot and/or FixMbr from Recovery Console.
    ok, I'll check them - after finding out what they exactly will do.  ; )

Thanks for your ideas

Tilman


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jonpan
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:08 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: XP pro - Now HDD continued problems


  Some ideas, Tilman:

  Try running online checks for Virus, Boot Sector virus, Rootkits.
  Try FixBoot and/or FixMbr from Recovery Console.
  Also from the Rec Console, you could run bootcfg /rebuild, but you have to
  remove the attributes from C:\boot.ini first and then re-apply them
  afterwards.
  Try setting the BIOS to Safe (or Optimized) defaults.

  Grüße

  John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
  To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
  Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 4:13 AM
  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 ;-)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------
  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