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Carol Haynes:
The error message is misleading ... it is nothing to do with the PageFil.SYS on your system it is all to do with reading/writing 'pages' of information to and from the drive during normal usage. If you look it up on MSKB it has a table on how to unpick the numerical block at the bottom.
The drive number can be seen by going to START > RUN and then right click on My Computer and select manager. In the left hand pane select Disk Management and the drives are labelled down the left Disk 0, Disk 1 etc. which is the drive number referred to in the error message.
CleverCat:
Yikes - Seagate is Disk 1....
But in Device Manager it's 0?
I get error on startup when it's not writing - or is it?
CleverCat:
Windows help says..
User Action
If these events are logged regularly on a primary system drive, replace the device. Otherwise, no user action is required.
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I looked at MSKB - a tad above my knowledge - except for bad sector bit.
My drive has 5 year warranty.
Carol Haynes:
If you look at the values in the data block they tell you if there really is a problem.
Basically if you look at the first two numbers in the data block:
0000: 04 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 de 3b 39 3a 00 00 00 .Þ;9:...
0028: ca aa 01 00 00 00 00 00 ʪ......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @..„....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 80 01 20 40 . ..€. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 f0 fd 86 f0 0a 40 8a .ðý†ð.@Š
0058: 00 00 00 00 e0 07 07 8a ....à..Š
0060: 00 00 00 00 ef 9d 1c 1d ....ï..
0068: 2a 00 1d 1c 9d ef 00 00 *...ï..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0a p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 04 02 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
In this example 04 and 00
04 tells you the event occurred when trying to write data tot he disk (03 for reading from the disc)
00 tells you the operation succeeded as there are no retries outstanding
In the line starting 0010 the last four numbers indicate the write will be retried
Finally the whole line 0020 gives the offset to a bad sector. Presumably if it is zero there isn't a bad sector but in the list above it looks like I might have a failing bad sector.
The odd thing is that when this even occurred the drive was sitting idle - in fact it was in power save mode so why it should give a write error or detect a bad sector is beyond me.
The best way to fix any bad sectors is to run CHKDSK D: /R /X /V in a command window (START > RUN > CMD.EXE) where D: is the drive, /X give CHKDSK exclusive access to the drive by dismounting it, /V gives a verbose output and /R specifies fixing the disc problems by doing a complete scan of the file data and empty data on the drive (it actually specifies locate bad sectors and recover any info if possible). Be prepared for it to take a long time on a large disc - though you can use your computer while it is running - just not that drive.
Actually I half wonder whether these warnings are generated because of the power save mode not waking the drive up quickly enough to respond to disc requests from Windows?
CleverCat:
Thanks for info!
Mine is identical except for - 0020: 00 8e 69 bf 00 00 00 00 .Ži¿....
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Will try the CHKDSK.
Maybe unchecking power saving would help, but I set mine to after 30 mins idle so it shouldn't do it on bootup.
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