From: "David B" 

have to run it at a reboot- says I can't run because system files are in use.

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> How often? Also chkdsk will report them, but you have to look in event
> manager to see the report after the reboot. Do a chkdsk /R.
>
> Geo.
>
> "David B"  wrote in message
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>> CHKDSK doesn't report bad blocks, event manager does.
>>
>>
>> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>> > At a guess the HD is failing. I've had 2 laptop drives go in the past 3
>> > months. First thing you notice is extra drive activity, I figured it
>> > was
>> > reading the same sectors again and again trying to get the data with no
>> > errors. Every time I would chkdsk I would see more bad blocks.
>> >
>> > Run chkdsk 3 times, if you see more bad blocks each time then the drive
> is
>> > going.
>> >
>> > Geo.
>> >
>> > "David Blair"  wrote in message
>> > news:41ffcc75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> I have a laptop, 2.8ghz Celeron, 512mb RAM, ultra slow 30 gig HD.
>> >> (Hey,
>> > it's
>> >> a laptop, after all. Why DO they insist on using 4300 rpm drives?)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> A couple of weeks ago, this suddenly started running VERY
slowly. Lots
> of
>> > HD
>> >> access. But no spyware shows up with AdAware or SpyBot,
and no viruses
>> >> are
>> >> detected. I've defragged it about 7 zillion times.
>> >>
>> >> I get a bad block error showing my event viewer, but CHKDSK doesn't
> seem
>> > to
>> >> mark it when it runs at startup.
>> >>
>> >> Why would I be running so horrendously slow? Any ideas
where to look?
> And
>> >> how do I get the bad block locked out?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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