Identifying hard disk making errors

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Can someone tell me how to figure out which of my disks is making
errors? I have normal EIDEs, SATA, USB and Flash Drive (USB) and get:

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR11 during a paging
operation.

Which one is is? There must be a way to look in the registry. TIA.
 
I believe the hd's are designated 0,1,2 etc so Harddisk2 would be the third.
Look in Disk Management, should be the third HD
If you have sata mirror they would only be seen/designated as a single hd.
 
It must be more complicated. My disk 2 is a flash drive. The error
msg says the problem occurred during a paging operation. I'm sure my
system is not paging on a flash disk (it's write locked anyway).
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865/EN-US/
Can someone tell me how to figure out which of my disks is making
errors? I have normal EIDEs, SATA, USB and Flash Drive (USB) and get:

An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR11 during a paging
operation.

Which one is is? There must be a way to look in the registry. TIA.


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Stubby said:
It must be more complicated. My disk 2 is a flash drive. The error
msg says the problem occurred during a paging operation. I'm sure my
system is not paging on a flash disk (it's write locked anyway).
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If you are running executables from it, 'paging' includes any operation swapping
program code into memory.

Also, if a program is accessing a file using MapViewOfFile() and it's friends
(the windows equivalent of the unix mmap() function) then paging occurs then.

If you get disk errors affecting actual system page file, you're playing russian
roulette with bullets like STOP 0x0000007A KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR, and not
just simple error log entries.

Your flash disk is probably wearing out. Flash drives have a limited lifetime
in terms of overwrite cycles, usually measured in thousands. Ten thousand is a
typical overwrite tolerance. Firmware inside the device typically 'spreads' the
overwriting across the entire flash device, which extends lifetime considerably,
but I've killed cheap flash drives in a few weeks.

Jim
 
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