75,000 identical entries in Event Log

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Questor

Every three or four days I review my Event Log. The log for two days
ago on my laptop (Vista Home Premium SP1) system has approximately
75,000 entries that are identical, all logged over a four-second period.

The entry reads:

(Event 51)
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging
operation.

According to MS, if this occurs on a primary drive (like "C" I'm
guessing - they don't say, actually) the drive could be failing. They
go on to say "Otherwise, no user action is required".

The error cites "harddisk2" so unless MS has decided that drive
numerations start a "2", I'm guessing this is something having to do
with an external drive; possibly one of my USB drives. What is strange
is that I haven't plugged in an any drives for five days or so.

Should I just mark this down as some sort of Vista glitch, as I am
tempted to do? Or, is this just one more thing to worry about? I do
know what paging operations are, and why they sometimes fail, but this
particular set of entries puzzles me.

Questor
 
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If the error is being recorded for a disconnected drive...
I'd try to see what's trying to access it...


Try reconnecting the external drive to see if the error messages stop
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That's the puzzling part of the whole thing - I haven't plugged any
drive in for the last 5 days; and, the log entries are for two days ago.

You may be right about 'something' trying to access it though. My USB
drive is connected just before I do a backup with Acronis TI 2009. It
may very well be that somewhere within Acronis I have activated some
sort of automatic backup that tried -once- to see if the backup device
is still there. Failing to find it, it shut up. Five days ago was when
I last did a backup with ATI.

My laptop is turned off now until tomorrow so that will be my first
priority - to run through ATI's tools and see if I did something stupid.
Inadvertently, of course. :)

I will report back.

Questor
 
Every three or four days I review my Event Log. The log for two days
ago on my laptop (Vista Home Premium SP1) system has approximately
75,000 entries that are identical, all logged over a four-second period.

The entry reads:

(Event 51)
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging
operation.

According to MS, if this occurs on a primary drive (like "C" I'm
guessing - they don't say, actually) the drive could be failing. They
go on to say "Otherwise, no user action is required".

The error cites "harddisk2" so unless MS has decided that drive
numerations start a "2", I'm guessing this is something having to do
with an external drive; possibly one of my USB drives. What is strange
is that I haven't plugged in an any drives for five days or so.

Should I just mark this down as some sort of Vista glitch, as I am
tempted to do? Or, is this just one more thing to worry about? I do
know what paging operations are, and why they sometimes fail, but this
particular set of entries puzzles me.

Questor
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I'd make a WAG that some program is still looking for that device. It
could be something user oriented (e.g. Word) or something system
oriented. Whatever it is, it's trying to get to the drive it last
used.
 
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That's the puzzling part of the whole thing - I haven't plugged any
drive in for the last 5 days; and, the log entries are for two days ago.

You may be right about 'something' trying to access it though. My USB
drive is connected just before I do a backup with Acronis TI 2009. It
may very well be that somewhere within Acronis I have activated some
sort of automatic backup that tried -once- to see if the backup device
is still there. Failing to find it, it shut up. Five days ago was when
I last did a backup with ATI.

My laptop is turned off now until tomorrow so that will be my first
priority - to run through ATI's tools and see if I did something stupid.
Inadvertently, of course. :)

I will report back.

Questor
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That was it! Acronis had somehow enabled it's "auto backup" and added
it's service to my startup items. I had to go back into ATI's tools and
uncheck the auto-save 'feature'.

I tested it by actually starting a backup with the external drive
unplugged. I canceled the operation shortly thereafter, but not until
the Event Viewer had about five or six hundred entries.

I have a trouble report headed to Acronis about this. Probably won't
get a reply as their tech support is over in India. It took them three
weeks to answer by last problem.

Questor
 
Questor said:
That was it! Acronis had somehow enabled it's "auto backup" and added
it's service to my startup items. I had to go back into ATI's tools and
uncheck the auto-save 'feature'.
Click to expand...

Yeah, sure... Acronis True Image did it. Sure.
 
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