Trege
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Meddling with Legends 1, Legends 2 and Mega Man 64 data.
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Post by Trege on Jun 6, 2009 22:48:35 GMT -5
I recently have been having trouble with my old windows XP computer, I have a clean install of XP but the computer crashes at random with no set pattern except when installing or moving files, it seems to crash more often when I do that.
I really have no way to test the problem it just stops at random and I have to reboot, and since it's a clean install and has been formatted recently a virus isn't the issue.
I've tried different ways to diagnose it, and still can't find the issue.
Anyone here have any ideas.
It's about 5 or more years old, I mainly use it for games because
it has a good graphics card.
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Post by Pitch on Jun 6, 2009 22:52:38 GMT -5
Well, the fact that it always crashes when installing or moving files might mean the harddrive's gone bad. I'd imagine there's someway to check that, but I'm not sure how.
I would question whether a virus is out of the question, since a fresh install might not have all the major security updates installed, though. That may be something to look into yet.
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Trege
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Meddling with Legends 1, Legends 2 and Mega Man 64 data.
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Post by Trege on Jun 6, 2009 23:18:07 GMT -5
I think that may be the case I tried to defrag it and it said the file system is corrupted in some places, even though it was formatted.
I'm pretty sure it's virus free as soon as I formatted it I installed Comodo internet security with defense + and updated it and got the windows security updates.
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Post by Pitch on Jun 6, 2009 23:35:43 GMT -5
If you right-click your harddrive(i.e., "Local Disk (C:)") in Explorer, under Properties→Tools, there's an “Error Checking” option that may help you.
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Post by mirak on Jun 7, 2009 0:25:49 GMT -5
Formatting a hard drive does not always clean all the viruses. Most damaging types store themselves in the BIOS, so i'd reccomend getting an expert to check it up.
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Trege
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Meddling with Legends 1, Legends 2 and Mega Man 64 data.
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Post by Trege on Jun 7, 2009 0:38:12 GMT -5
I ran some more diagnostics and so far it's the hard drive parts of it arent working the index
service is crashing because of it... so looks like I need a new HD.
Since part of the HD is broken if you knew which sectors
were corrupted because of it couldn't you use a partition program
to seperate the corrupted areas from the windows partition to make the HD last just a bit longer?
I have a good amount of partition tools, which is why I ask.
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