Windows false alarms...

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> Subject: OT: Windows false alarms...
> 
> If you do a checkdisk on a drive from My Computer in Windows (XP Home
> here), there -is- the possibility of it saying that it's unable to
> finish,
> yet having no problems whatsoever with the disk, including at the
> sector
> level.
> 
> Had one pull that on me.  I always take, "Windows was unable to finish
> checking the disk," as a failure.  I ran a full checkdisk, including
> filesystem checks/repairs and bad sector recovery, and it found -nada-.
> 
> My suspicion is that, like its older Win9x brethren, if something else
> accesses the disk it's working on at the wrong time or too often, it's
> the
> equivalent of the old "retried 10 times, giving up" from the older
> version.
> Can't prove it, as it's not documented.  But the boot-time one gives it
> a
> clean bill of health.
> 
> Not only that, -before- I did the thorough boot-time check, I ran ten
> regular disk checks, identically configured to the one that didn't
> complete, after that one didn't complete.  All ten finished and said it
> was
> complete.  Then, out of paranoia, I did the full one JUST to be sure.
> 
> That message is -not- an automatic death sentence for a drive or
> filesystem.
> 
> mark->
> --
> "Moral cowardice will surely be written as the cause on the death
> certificate of what used to be Western Civilization." --James P. Hogan

Mark,

Per chance, do you have a screen saver running on you system.  If so, this
may be causing the problem when it starts.

When I run chkdsk or any disk defrag program, I turn off the screen saver as
it creates problems.

Richard