chkdsk and ndd errors

[rjz]

I get this stuff a lot on my boot drive. It just gives me different erros each time. Usually they are only the cleanup ones for the decriptors but, sometimes I get others. What could ause this? I ran my manufacturers hd utility to check for a bad hd. But that check was ok.

What does this mean? Write failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0xe000 for 0x10000 bytes. This looks real bad.

Checking file system on F:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.

Windows will now check the disk.

Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.

Cleaning up 1 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 1 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.

Cleaning up 1 unused security descriptors.

CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...

File data verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...

Free space verification is complete.

The MFT mirror is different from the MFT.

Correcting errors in the Master File Table (MFT) mirror.

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.

Write failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0xe000 for 0x10000 bytes.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

39985753 KB total disk space.

6870644 KB in 38244 files.

12296 KB in 2962 indexes.

0 KB in bad sectors.

123513 KB in use by the system.

65536 KB occupied by the log file.

32979300 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

9996438 total allocation units on disk.

8244825 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:

10 db 00 00 01 a1 00 00 bf da 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

b6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 49 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........I.......

06 a5 08 01 00 00 00 00 08 e7 cb 1c 00 00 00 00 ................

04 9b e1 01 00 00 00 00 08 28 c9 2d 01 00 00 00 .........(.-....

9e 2f f8 41 02 00 00 00 d4 ad 7b 95 03 00 00 00 ./.A......{.....

99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 10 3a 07 00 64 95 00 00 ..6......:..d...

00 00 00 00 00 d0 59 a3 01 00 00 00 92 0b 00 00 ......Y.........

Windows has finished checking your disk.

Please wait while your computer restarts.

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[KJxp]

Is your computer shutting down properly? Does it ever lockup? Do you hear any abnormal sounds from your harddrive?

[tarquel]

Have you tried an advanced check with thr hd manufacturers diag (boot disk/cd) tool?

I've seen times where the basic test says ok, but when I've run an advanced test, its found stuff (and corrected it in some cases).

As KJxp mentioned, has the HD started sounding different recently? You can (rarely tho) get some manufacturers' diag tool report everything is fine when you can hear the hd making some abnormal sounds.

It could just mean that the file system has got corrupt in this certain area (for whatever reason) but that there isn't any physical damage, in which case, windows could mess up completely at any time.

Either way, I'd back up any important data to a dvd/cd just in case it suddenly fails

You might want to try a complete clean install of Windows (not a reinstall) and make sure it formats & repartitions the hard drive in the process and then restore your data and programs

Good luck,

N.

[rjz]

I might do that. I will try the hd burn in test later. Is there any good reason to do a low level format?

The regular scan found nothing.

No noises either.

Write failure with status 0xc0000185 at offset 0xe000 for 0x10000 bytes.

Windows has made corrections to the file system

what does this mean?

[pfarmer]

I agree with it_ybd - delete all partitions, format (complete, not quick) and reinstall.

Might even be worth downloading the proprietary HDD formatting/testing tools by your HDD's manufacturer.

Still persists, maybe think about buying another HDD (they are cheap enough these days.)

[rjz]

The burn in test passed. So It looks like I will repartition it later.

[tarquel]

yep yep

- get your info backed up somewhere - dvd or seperate HD, etc

- run all the burn-in tests and low-level format etc

- create the new partition stucture - some manufactures have tools you can do this with i.e. Maxtor Max Blast (think its called) and WD has one too - with that you can format it too as well, just skip the copying system files part of it.

- boot the xp cd media blah blah

- restore your docs and stuff from the backup

- see how ya get on

Get yourself protected against viruses from the offset & antispyware stuff too - then connect up to the net and get those updates

If it starts happening pretty much straight away then you may want to get a new HD

Also, you could keep the old one - might be useful for some storage of stuff - not important stuff tho, i.e. just incase it finally dies.

Good luck.

N.