Black shut down screen

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Is that 9GB the total size of the partition
or is it 9GB of free space?

Either way what is the size of your system partition?
 
JimL said:
Someone "a long way from here" suggested I might be low on disk space. I
have 9 gb on my system partition. Could anything about shutdown need more
than that to do a qhick shutdown? Of course there's the 1 gb HiPileIt.sys
file (or something like that) for starters. Let's see if I can find the
right name. ... Oops, hiberfil.sys. I was noticing that my hard drive is
going full tilt for that whole 5 minutes. Does that sound like a bunch of
file swapping going on?

I could move some stuff around and expand C: if it would do any good.
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That hiberfil.sys is what's created when you put the pc into
hibernation. You'd think that once you came out of hibernation that it
would delete the file, but alas it doesn't.
 
JS said:
Full Tilt drive activity:
Find a process that could be the cause - Process Explorer:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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On it.
You mentioned drive has bad blocks, did you check the SMART values?
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First thing off. Which makes me doubt either SMART or whatever is reporting
the errors knows what it's doing. (BTW, the block errors haven't appeared
for two days.) I haven't found an actual sector checker that doesn't
promise to screw around doing automatic repairs. I'll permit that either
when hell freezes over or when someone guarantees on pain of death that my
system will be intact when it's done. I'd just like to see an actual
report -graphic, pseudo-graphic or whatever - of what's bad.

(Well, I found a couple such utilities, but they both demanded that they be
connected to the internet while doing the testing - whereupon I deleted them
from my system. What the @#$% does a sector checker need to be connected to
the internet for? Other than downloading malware?)

I can't make much sense of most SMART data, but one utility showed 3 Good
ratings and the rest Very Good. Another one merely shows OK on all values.

OH, it _does_ predict that my spin up time should exceed proper limits in
April 2017!!!

Thanks
 
That hiberfil.sys is what's created when you put the pc into
hibernation. You'd think that once you came out of hibernation that it
would delete the file, but
Click to expand...

So I've been told, but I found instructions on how to delete it (after
turning off the process in registry). Upon restoring the process later it
built a new copy immediately upon boot. Blame it on the Bossa Nova. (Are
you old enough to have ever heard that song?)
alas it doesn't.
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Alas? I see you're a grand master of understatement!
 
 
Thanks. I guess I should have elaborated on the sector checking issue.

This drive is Hitachi. I found a DFT EXE which was nothing more than a
SMART reader that gives you less than a generic SMART reader I have.
Instructions say you have to use their diskette based boot utility (that may
or may not check sectors), but I have no floppy drive. (While he's changing
the world Obama should outlaw diskettes.) Upon query they said you _can_
use a boot CD instead.

There again - I can't get my CD burner to work (see coming post).

Thanks. You have been very helpful in all this.

JimL
 
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JimL said:
Thanks. I guess I should have elaborated on the sector checking issue.

This drive is Hitachi. I found a DFT EXE which was nothing more than a
SMART reader that gives you less than a generic SMART reader I have.
Instructions say you have to use their diskette based boot utility (that
may or may not check sectors), but I have no floppy drive. (While he's
changing the world Obama should outlaw diskettes.) Upon query they said
you _can_ use a boot CD instead.

There again - I can't get my CD burner to work (see coming post).

Thanks. You have been very helpful in all this.

JimL
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2) Find and display a Process that could be the cause try Process Explorer:

Then mouse over the process that's using most or all the CPU %.
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Perhaps I'm missing a point, but this item looks to be pretty central and it
doesn't seem to take into consideration the fact that the 5 minute delay and
its attendant disk thrashing start after XP is 99% shut down. CPU useage is
minimal during the pre-shutdown lull.

It does occur to me that I may be able, one at a time, to shut down this or
that process prior to shutdown and see if killing it stops the nonsense.

Thanks
 
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