Hello All,
I have this really old laptop with a four gig hard drive on it. I installed Windows 2000 on it and it ran fine for a while. One day I was just surfing the net on it and I got a pagefault blue screen of death. I wish I had more details from it, but it flashed fairly quickly from view. Anyways I booted back up and the the computer just sat there with a blinking cursur, the way this old laptop reacts if there is no operating system found on the hard drive. Anyways I loaded with a boot disk, luckily I was using fat32, I looked to see if my files were there and they kinds of were. I did
cd\
dir
and it listed directories like WHNMS, which did not exists, and files such as AUTOEYDB.BBS and CPMJG.SZS. When I tried to cd into WHNMS it told the directory did not exists, then I dir again and it listed WINNT, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS. Like the files just magically decided to change names and then back again. Well I decided to ignore this error, I ran my old bootdisk that had a utility to completely wipe the hard drive with zeroes, reformated and reinstalled. A few days later the same things happenned. I repeated this about 8 times, sometime using win2000, winxp, win98, and even nt4.
I'm pretty sure I am correct when I say it is a hard drive problem because first of all the pagefile is located on the hard drive, so if the hard drive were to mess up while in windows the first error that maybe detected is the pagefile if windows were trying to write to it, which it is always writing to it with my small amount of ram. Anyways, I'm guessing for some reason my hard drive cannot hold the file allocation table and master boot record correctly and that is why my hard drive seems okay for a while and then all of a sudden messes up.
Also I noticed that the letters always change one ascii value. A turns into @ or a B. C turns into a B or D. Y turns into an X or Z. So on and so forth. I doubt this helps figure out the problem any but just incase this is important somehow.
Like I said, I already have my conclusions, I just wanted some opinions on whether my statement is completely wrong or what not. So I appreciate any help in shining light on this problem.
I have this really old laptop with a four gig hard drive on it. I installed Windows 2000 on it and it ran fine for a while. One day I was just surfing the net on it and I got a pagefault blue screen of death. I wish I had more details from it, but it flashed fairly quickly from view. Anyways I booted back up and the the computer just sat there with a blinking cursur, the way this old laptop reacts if there is no operating system found on the hard drive. Anyways I loaded with a boot disk, luckily I was using fat32, I looked to see if my files were there and they kinds of were. I did
cd\
dir
and it listed directories like WHNMS, which did not exists, and files such as AUTOEYDB.BBS and CPMJG.SZS. When I tried to cd into WHNMS it told the directory did not exists, then I dir again and it listed WINNT, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS. Like the files just magically decided to change names and then back again. Well I decided to ignore this error, I ran my old bootdisk that had a utility to completely wipe the hard drive with zeroes, reformated and reinstalled. A few days later the same things happenned. I repeated this about 8 times, sometime using win2000, winxp, win98, and even nt4.
I'm pretty sure I am correct when I say it is a hard drive problem because first of all the pagefile is located on the hard drive, so if the hard drive were to mess up while in windows the first error that maybe detected is the pagefile if windows were trying to write to it, which it is always writing to it with my small amount of ram. Anyways, I'm guessing for some reason my hard drive cannot hold the file allocation table and master boot record correctly and that is why my hard drive seems okay for a while and then all of a sudden messes up.
Also I noticed that the letters always change one ascii value. A turns into @ or a B. C turns into a B or D. Y turns into an X or Z. So on and so forth. I doubt this helps figure out the problem any but just incase this is important somehow.
Like I said, I already have my conclusions, I just wanted some opinions on whether my statement is completely wrong or what not. So I appreciate any help in shining light on this problem.