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Acer Laptop Chkdsk Error's

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Pardus

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Picked up thee Acer Aspire One AO722-0473 Netbook from target last week, great machine overall. However, i'm getting a constant chkdsk error no matter what i do.

What i have done:
Erased all partitions multiple times
Ran a disk utility to write zero's to every sector
Ran the Hitachi Diagnostics Tool that showed no errors on the disk
Ran a memory checker, no errors

I can run chkdsk on the "c" drive, its runs to completion, when windows re-loads, i do another chkdsk c: and it still says errors, i know there are no errors on the disk or partitions.

If i try to run a chkdsk on the "d" drive, i get the unspecified error occurred message.

I'm 99% sure there is nothing wrong with the Hitatchi hard drive, with that being the case, why am i getting these disk errors, should i be concerned?

My other laptop/desktop doesn't give these weird error messages.

It's more annoying than anything else, cannot run a simple chkdsk on a separate partition that windows should be able to unmount.

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I've run into this on a brand new out of the box system intended for media distribution and found that it was related to drive mounting/unmounting of the system reserved space.

I had already moved over nearly 15,000 songs from a failing rig and then paniced when the system disk checker wouldn't run. Thinking it was a bad disk out of the box I was cursing Gateway.
 
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I wouldn't risk keeping it. I remember in an A+ class I had the instructor commenting on how it seems that hard drives are failing in much greater quantities than they used to.
 
paul878 said:
Did you ran the LONG or SHORT test with Hitachi Diagnostics Tool?
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Did both, but the LONG test stopped after 40% of so running for almost 18 hours. I called Acer, there asking me to write up a letter explaining the issue and send it back to them at there cost. I might do this or return it.
 
If the "Repair your Computer" environment is available on your system (top of the list that shows up when pressing f8 to go to safe mode), try opening a command prompt and running chkdsk from there.
 
nitrous9200 said:
If the "Repair your Computer" environment is available on your system (top of the list that shows up when pressing f8 to go to safe mode), try opening a command prompt and running chkdsk from there.
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Yes, ran the command in safe-mode with command prompt, and with active kill disk app, has all the repair command built in..formatting, partitioning, recovery, diagnostics, repair and so on.. amazing app.
 
ActiveX said:
Did both, but the LONG test stopped after 40% of so running for almost 18 hours. I called Acer, there asking me to write up a letter explaining the issue and send it back to them at there cost. I might do this or return it.
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That sounds like a cabling or connector defect / problem. Even if the drive was bad it should not take that long for the Hitchia DFT to only get 40%. I would return it for a replacement if you can.
 
Since this is a laptop, the problem is either the HD or the Motherboard.
Take the HD out and test it in another system or an usb adaptor.
 
Laptop came back from Acer with this note "Passed PCD HDD test. Reload the OS. Update BIOS.", they did absolutely nothing,

Getting the same chkdsk errors. Guess which brand of laptop i'll never buy again.
 
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