From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Boot from the install CD, go to a command prompt, and run from there, so
nothing is loaded from the boot partition.

--
Glenn M.


"David B"  wrote in message
news:4200e478$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
> > news:42004a6b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> 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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