Advanced Minds

drive... there is a problem. I've never yet seen a new drive with any bad sectors recognized by the OS... though I have seen at least one new drive fail within the first month of use. It was of course replaced under warrantee. I still don't know what the problem was. Defrag just didn't want to go near one spot on the drive and spat out a reference number for the sector. ( this reference since used as a bookmark and could be anywhere in the public library system). Running NDD (~scandisk) with a full surface scan, overnight, cleared it up, at the beginning of this week. I was just looking for ideas on what was going on - someone suggested flash as a potential irritant and that rang a bell - mozilla+flash=flakey. Why running IE with the same flash should 'un-flake' the current equation is the remaining mystery. I'm afraid I don't have access to outside tech support around here, when anything goes wrong on a PC. The best can manage is to get an outside opinion or two. If NDD was able to scan the drive and fix the errors... that means the bad sector(s) have been mapped out. The best thing to do is go the the website of the harddrive's manufacturer and download their diagnostic utility then run it. If it does not pass the diagnostic...you need to backup your data at once and replace the drive. If it passes the mfg's diagnostic the drive should be OK to use... but you should run scan disk again from time to time. If more bad sectors are found...the drive is going and should not be used any longer. As Mr. Terhune has mentioned somewhere...the question is whether or not data that were in the bad sector(s) had been recovered or had the data been lost. If you have lost or damaged system files...your OS may be at least partially corrupted. There are a slew of other factors that could be involved and we are only touching the surface of all possibilites. Additionally , how much RAM does the machine have? How many applications are running at startup? You may want to run msconfig and take unneeded apps from startup. Though I of course recommend always keeping your virus checker there... many apps that end up in startup are not need there at all... especially if the machine does not have a lot of RAM.

Forget it! There was never any report of damage to the disk. It was ALL software, file system errors. SpeedDisk reported a problem, nature unknown. NDD discovered one or more problems that at least included the discovery of lost clusters. Problems were fixed and SpeedDisk could then run just fine. There is NO need to run any further disk diagnostics, there is REALLY no need to run any RAM testing utilities. Waste of time and energy. The movie problem was solved before the OP even posted, none of it having anything to do with hardware. The problem may or may not have had anything to do with the problems found in the file system. Could be total coincidence. Stupid, complicated operation involving streaming a movie fouled up, which is to be expected from time to time. Then, perhaps because of some operator function or perhaps not, it quit malfunctioning and the movie played again. Note that the problem was repeated using two different browsers, which immediately eliminates any possibility that hardware was in any way causal.

|| WAS: || That is nuts. And just goes to show how limited Usenet is, || as it is _base_d on words ONLY. You know the VERY old thing || about 70-95% (depending on what specialist you talk to) || communication being verbal. || || SHOULD BE: || That is nuts. And just goes to show how limited Usenet is, || as it is _base_d on words ONLY. You know the VERY old thing || about 70-95% (depending on what specialist you talk to) || communication being VISUAL. | | Sometimes oldies are goodies, thanatoid! | | Huh??? Do you mean that talking in RL is better? Well, of | course, unless the person smells bad or is a moron you just | can't get away from (morons are REALLY good at not legging you | go), or when there is a good chance of getting punched in the | face I usually do like the distance & anonymity provided by the NET. It was only in real life that my octigenarian uncle punched me in the jaw after waving his fist thrice! I was just standing there looking at it! | Or did you mean something else? The problem was I didn't understand what you meant or precisely what it was you were responding to in my post. I tried, but then gave up & said nonsense. Sorry. I hope you didn't spend too much time trying to figure it. What exactly is nuts? Wait a minute. By Usenet, you refer to Google

thanatoid < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message | PCR < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in | news: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it : | | <SNIP | | | | Good day to you sir. I believe the word you may have | | | been looking for is philosophaster . | | | | | | Phi`los´o`phas`ter | | n. 1. A pretender to philosophy. | | | | I've looked again & cannot find it in my Webster's New | World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition. | However, this book is old, & the copyright page is missing. | But I didn't see you were doing any philosophastering, | anyhow

...snip | | I have not made up the word philosophaster...but Mr. Terhune has made | | up his word. Creating new words is a sign of an excellent and clever | | mind. | | That might depend upon just what word is invented, at least for the | excellence of it. But Terhune's words often are excellent enough