Weird...

[jononew22]

Guys...the weirdest thing just happened to me...ok so i was about to do disk clean up and it froze while trying to compress old files so i turned it off and rebooted...and it had the black screen with backup cmos..and under that it said disk read error....then i restarted and it did the windows chkdsk..and an undesignated error was found while finishing step 2....THEN i restarted hoping for the best and I get... C0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll .....I restarted again...and here i am. I don't get this at all. It seems as though my hard drive is crapping out. but why does it work now after about 80 restarts??? please help if you can...

well i just looked up the error... and it may be that i have a corrupt dll ? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314474

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: jononew22
Guys...the weirdest thing just happened to me...ok so i was about to do disk clean up and it froze while trying to compress old files so i turned it off and rebooted...and it had the black screen with backup cmos..and under that it said disk read error....then i restarted and it did the windows chkdsk..and an undesignated error was found while finishing step 2....THEN i restarted hoping for the best and I get... C0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll .....I restarted again...and here i am. I don't get this at all. It seems as though my hard drive is crapping out. but why does it work now after about 80 restarts??? please help if you can...

well i just looked up the error... and it may be that i have a corrupt dll ? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314474

But the bigger question here is How did it get corrupted?? It could have gotten corrupted when you reset it during the freeze. Or the freeze was cause by existing disk problems... I guess if it is a disk problem it will be back I would make a very complete back-up just in case.

pcgeek11

 

[Cerb]

Get some diagnostics utilities for the drive, and do a full test, after burning DVDs of any important stuff. Back up first, ask question later.

WD's utilities run in Windows just fine (no boot disk or anything), and don't care if it's a non-WD drive, so I'd recommend them as a start.

 

[jononew22]

ok guys thanks for the reply...I rebooted again and chkdsk repaired like 1000 files and it seems fine now...but yeah, how it got corrupt is a mystery to me..do files become corrupt if you restart at an inopportune time, say, when it's frozen.

 

[Cerb]

That's a poaasibility, if it was writing to the drive at the time. However, I'd still back up.

 

[jononew22]

ok