laptop is a hp zv6005us and it is 3 years old. the harddrive is a toshiba.
what is interesting is that my daughters laptop also a compaq v5305wm had
harddrive failure also once sept 07 while still under warranty then the
replacement hardrive did the same thing in april 08 (also a toshiba) while
doing chkdsk on hers i had same problem turns out 1/2 of the drive was
corruptes as it failed both the short and long test in bios. this laptop has
passed the short test in bios havent dont the long test yet.

will post after i do chkdsk again.

"Gerry" wrote:

> Laurie
>
> The implications of your message is that you have a large corrupted file
> or files and / or you have a limited amount of free disk space. You
> potentially have a very serious problem so you should immediately back
> up important data files before it is too late. When you have backed up
> it would be helpful if you posted more information.
>
> What is your computer make and model? What exactly do you have by way of
> a Windows XP CD. Post the description given on the face of the CD. You
> may need to do a clean install on a replacement hard drive so it is
> important to make sure you will have the ability to do this before you
> try to fix thing the problem with the existing hard drive. Using chkdsk
> / f can cause wholesale file corruption so you need to to have a
> complete copy of Windows XP you can use if this happens.
>
> The logging of chkdsk operations is through Event Viewer but the
> information provided is not very detailed. You can get more information
> using chkdsk but in a different way to that which I think you have
> tried. Check the hard drive for bad sectors by running chkdsk c: /r. The
> omission of /f is deliberate. It will not take so long and just reports.
> Post a complete copy of what it says. It can be the /f option that leads
> to file corruption.
>
> Another less intrusive way to investigate your hard drive is to use HD
> Tune.
>
> Try HD Tune only gives information and does not fix any
> problems.
>
> Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune
> (freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00.
> http://www.hdtune.com/
>
> Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
> letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
> and copy into a further message.
>
> Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
> Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
> surface scan with HD Tune.
>
> I would also like to see a copy of the Stop Error Report.
>
> Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
> allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
> the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
> Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
> Automatically Restart.
>
> Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
> resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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> Stourport, England
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>
> laurie wrote:
> > had bsod yesterday and their was a error reported in event viewer for
> > 1003. i posted mindump at site and they said to do a defrag and
> > chksck frag went find but when doing the chkdsk i had message come up
> > that their where the disk does not have enough space to replace bad
> > clusters detected in file 129592 of name and it said this for about
> > 15 minutes all other tests where fine. i went into event viewer but
> > could find nothing for winlogon. wanted to know how bad the drive is.
> >
> > any idea why there is no log and is there another way to check
> > without it taking 3 hours.
>
>
>