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#265666 - 22/09/2005 10:32 PC desktop drive problem?!?
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 525
Loc: Oklahoma
Anyone have any good ideas?

When ever I try to access anything on the E drive (guess where most of my music and movies are?) it starts using 100% of the memory, everything slows to a dead crawl and even stops…I have ran all my defrags, my virus scanners, and my adware/spyware detectors/cleaners…I need to find a tool to see if I can find out what the problem is, and if I can, fix it….If I have to reformat the 250, I’m hosed…again!

Any recommendataions?
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#265667 - 22/09/2005 12:03 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Is DMA enabled for that drive in Device Manager? Check the properties for your IDE controller to determine that.
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#265668 - 22/09/2005 13:27 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: robricc]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
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Loc: Oklahoma
I'll check when I get home and see...should it be? Every thing has been running fine since like May. The only difference with my hardware is that I added a UPS to my system. And it ran fine for a week. Then I started having the 'issues'. I can get to the E drive , (the partitioned 250 gigger is drive D and E) but when I try to open a folder on it or access anything on the drve it hangs, uses 100% of the memory, and IF it comes back it gives the infamous 'not responding' error...however the other half of the drive (the D partition) works just fine...
I'm really tweaked out over this...can't afford to replace a 250, much less loosing the data...
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#265669 - 22/09/2005 13:46 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
robricc
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Posts: 4931
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Yeah, it should be enabled. See this post for details.
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#265670 - 23/09/2005 10:04 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: robricc]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 525
Loc: Oklahoma
Ok, the DMA is set correctly. I have checked the drive 9ways to hell and back, and it is good. I have a file or file structure problem. Eve File Scavenger pukes when trying to read the entire drive in 'exhaustive' mode.

Does anyone have a recommendation of ANY tools, that I could use to try to repair the file structure on that partition?
Many many thanks....

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#265671 - 23/09/2005 14:10 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
Robotic
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Registered: 06/04/2005
Posts: 2026
Loc: Seattle transplant
How full is the partition?
I had similar problems with an 80GB drive that was close to maxxed out (single partition, non-boot drive, WinME).
I thought the drive was about to croak so I carefully unloaded it.
Lo and behold my problems vanished- it just didn't like being full.
Could that be true for a full partition?
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#265672 - 23/09/2005 15:40 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I'd copy as much data off of it as possible ASAP, whatever the case.

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#265673 - 24/09/2005 11:52 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ezekiel]
Ladmo
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Loc: Oklahoma
The partition has 23 GIG out of 117 GIG available...I wouldn't think size would be a problem. But anyway, I am copying the music and document files now (some I can't get to still) then I will try a couple of the lameass tools that I know of...I have access to bunches but have no idea which one to try...
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#265674 - 24/09/2005 14:18 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 525
Loc: Oklahoma
Fixed...thank goodness! It looks like I even kept most of my files....if anyone has this problem in the future...maybe I can help. Thanks for all the assistance!
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#265675 - 24/09/2005 22:37 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
StigOE
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Registered: 27/10/2002
Posts: 568
So what was the problem (or solution)?

Stig

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#265676 - 24/09/2005 23:39 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: StigOE]
Ladmo
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Registered: 04/09/2004
Posts: 525
Loc: Oklahoma
Just let me say...you need to run chkdsk with the CORRECT parameters....took about two and a hlf hours but it seems to be much better now...
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#265677 - 25/09/2005 06:41 Re: PC desktop drive problem?!? [Re: Ladmo]
StigOE
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