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When I start up my Win 2k Pro system lately the normal boot process will
often stop and display a message that the hard disk needs to be "checked for
consistency". It then goes on to "verify files and folders". So far, no
errors have been found and after this it continues to boot up normally.

I have acouple of questions about this:

1) The disk being checked for consistency with what?

2) Is this a sign that the disk drive is developing problems, and should I
think of replacing it, and re-installing everything before it goes belly up?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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From: "Virgil Smith" <vsmith@lcbsystems.com>

| When I start up my Win 2k Pro system lately the normal boot process will
| often stop and display a message that the hard disk needs to be "checked for
| consistency". It then goes on to "verify files and folders". So far, no
| errors have been found and after this it continues to boot up normally.
|
| I have acouple of questions about this:
|
| 1) The disk being checked for consistency with what?
|
| 2) Is this a sign that the disk drive is developing problems, and should I
| think of replacing it, and re-installing everything before it goes belly up?
|
| Thanks for any suggestions.
|


Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/d [...] wermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Ha [...] shdiag.htm


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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Mr. Lipman's reply is very helpful; it's a neat list of where to get
drive diagnostics, and lots of folks will probably copy/paste it into
their personal bibles.

The disk consistency check is what chkdsk does; it's a test for
integrity of the file structures and files themselves on a partition.

What the message you're seeing means is that during the OS boot process
the OS examination of resources found an anomaly of some kind on one or
more partitions. Run chkdsk on all of them; then run chkdsk /f on the
one(s) reported as problematic. You may not have to replace your hard
drive after all.

Virgil Smith wrote:

> When I start up my Win 2k Pro system lately the normal boot process will
> often stop and display a message that the hard disk needs to be "checked for
> consistency". It then goes on to "verify files and folders". So far, no
> errors have been found and after this it continues to boot up normally.
>
> I have acouple of questions about this:
>
> 1) The disk being checked for consistency with what?
>
> 2) Is this a sign that the disk drive is developing problems, and should I
> think of replacing it, and re-installing everything before it goes belly up?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>

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Thanks for the good idea and for the list. I'll give it a try.

-vs-

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:ejF$5NMqFHA.3732@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> From: "Virgil Smith" <vsmith@lcbsystems.com>
>
> | When I start up my Win 2k Pro system lately the normal boot process will
> | often stop and display a message that the hard disk needs to be "checked
for
> | consistency". It then goes on to "verify files and folders". So far, no
> | errors have been found and after this it continues to boot up normally.
> |
> | I have acouple of questions about this:
> |
> | 1) The disk being checked for consistency with what?
> |
> | 2) Is this a sign that the disk drive is developing problems, and should
I
> | think of replacing it, and re-installing everything before it goes belly
up?
> |
> | Thanks for any suggestions.
> |
>
>
> Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic
software
> respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard
disk is bad or
> not..
>
> Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
> http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/d [...] wermax.htm
>
> Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
> http://support.wdc.com/download/
>
> Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
>
> Seagate - SeaTools
> http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
>
> Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
> http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/
>
> Samsung - Disk manager
> http://www.samsung.com/Products/Ha [...] shdiag.htm
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>