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Sanford Aranoff
New XP machine. Woke up in the morning. Bad page file. Had to unplug the
computer. Would not reboot. Shut off power from the external hard disk,
and then rebooted fine. Restored system to a few days ago. Tested F:,
the external hard disk. Bad sectors. Called Dell, and they authorized a
warranty return.
I decided to try to format. Everything was fine. Tested F:. Everything
is fine. How can this be? If the disk was bad, formatting would not make
it good!
I noticed after the format, F: contained a few files. Why are there
files present on a drive that was formatted? One file is "System Volume
Information". I am unable to read this file. Access Denied. It is a
hidden file. There is also a autorun.inf file. Do you think my problems
may have come from deleting these files? If so, why did the problem
arise in the morning, instead of immediately after deleting the files?
Is my hard disk good, or should I exchange it?
computer. Would not reboot. Shut off power from the external hard disk,
and then rebooted fine. Restored system to a few days ago. Tested F:,
the external hard disk. Bad sectors. Called Dell, and they authorized a
warranty return.
I decided to try to format. Everything was fine. Tested F:. Everything
is fine. How can this be? If the disk was bad, formatting would not make
it good!
I noticed after the format, F: contained a few files. Why are there
files present on a drive that was formatted? One file is "System Volume
Information". I am unable to read this file. Access Denied. It is a
hidden file. There is also a autorun.inf file. Do you think my problems
may have come from deleting these files? If so, why did the problem
arise in the morning, instead of immediately after deleting the files?
Is my hard disk good, or should I exchange it?