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hard drive problem

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BriGy86

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i built my own system, asus mobo, seagate 80 gig IDE hard drive (bout a year old)
AMD athlon XP 3000+, and a gig of ram

i have never seen so much stuff come up on a disk check before

1st off it takes about 10 minutes to boot

i kept getting error messages from my antivirus software saying to uninstall and reinstall on boot up

i was running tune up utilities before it all happened, but after i had been making changes the system still worked fine, it seems that the problems happend after a period of being idol

after the problems started i fix any changes to the reg. that i did and uninstalled tune up utilities

i think reformating would be the best solution but does any one have any ideas as to what may have caused it or how to fix it?

as for security im pretty well covered- trend micro 2005, about 5+ spyware programs, and a firewall thats built in to PC-cillian

thanks for any help

EDIT: also the hard drive light rarely goes off, my guess is that it is searching for the important files it needs but they seem to have been thrown into lala land🙂
 
also a bad storm just came by this past monday, which was before all the problems, the thing is my computer was off but still plugged into the wall when it was going on (also my parents computer is fine) so i don't think a power surge was the problem
 
Download the Seagate Diagnostic utilities. (They come on CD with retail drives.)
It will check out your drive.

A power surge can cause data corruption and physical damage can occur as well.
Be aware that the Seagate utility won't always give you an error prompt if it finds damage. Drives have built-in slack space and will reallocate another sector.

The last Seagate I will ever buy had one failure and the diag software reallocated space. The second failure came and it was unrecoverable.

Sometimes though a "zero-fill" format will get you right again.
 
SWEET GLORY IS MINE!

i hooked my drive up to a friends computer and was able to get most/all the important stuff off, im still gonna run that disk wizard though, and would it be ok if i tried to run a disk check on it while its in my friends computer? it shouldn't hurt anything on his right?

and also is the command line one and different?

thanks for the help
 
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