Event Viewer Errors??????

I've got XP PRO telling me in Event Viewer that there is a bad block on my
drive D disk. However when I use Check Disk to check the entire drive, it
tells me that there are NO problems with the drive. Why would XP be telling
me about a bad area on the disk when there is none? What else could it mean?
Most importantly, why is XP trying to write to my drive in the first place
when I don't have it set up to? Thanks for any and all
replies/suggestions/comments.

Lonnie

What is drive D? Could it be a CD or DVD?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Lonnie wrote:
> I've got XP PRO telling me in Event Viewer that there is a bad block
> on my drive D disk. However when I use Check Disk to check the
> entire drive, it tells me that there are NO problems with the drive.
> Why would XP be telling me about a bad area on the disk when there is
> none? What else could it mean? Most importantly, why is XP trying to
> write to my drive in the first place when I don't have it set up to?
> Thanks for any and all replies/suggestions/comments.

"Lonnie" <Lonnie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC287629-8845-4D71-8425-6374C48ED16B@microsoft.com...
> I've got XP PRO telling me in Event Viewer that there is a bad block on my
> drive D disk. However when I use Check Disk to check the entire drive, it
> tells me that there are NO problems with the drive. Why would XP be
> telling
> me about a bad area on the disk when there is none? What else could it
> mean?
> Most importantly, why is XP trying to write to my drive in the first place
> when I don't have it set up to? Thanks for any and all
> replies/suggestions/comments.

What kind of device is your drive D? One one of my computers, it is a WD
disk, but on the other it is a CD/DVD drive.
What parameters did you give Check Disk? Unless you told it to find and try
to fix any bad sectors, it didn't.
XP is not necessarily trying to write to the disk. It may be merely
reporting what the drive electronics told it.
Jim

Yes, hi, thanks for your reply. D is a second hard drive I have set up on my
XP PRO system. It is a 60G drive I use for backup purposes.

"Gerry" wrote:

> Lonnie
>
> What is drive D? Could it be a CD or DVD?
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> Lonnie wrote:
> > I've got XP PRO telling me in Event Viewer that there is a bad block
> > on my drive D disk. However when I use Check Disk to check the
> > entire drive, it tells me that there are NO problems with the drive.
> > Why would XP be telling me about a bad area on the disk when there is
> > none? What else could it mean? Most importantly, why is XP trying to
> > write to my drive in the first place when I don't have it set up to?
> > Thanks for any and all replies/suggestions/comments.
>
>
>

Yes hello, and thanks for your reply. As I mentioned in my reply to Gerry, D
is another hard drive I have set up in my system for backup purposes. I
used the /F/R parameters in check disk via a dos box. I also had run it via
the windows environment and checked both boxes, which I believe is the
equivalent of those two parameters I just mentioned.

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Lonnie" <Lonnie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BC287629-8845-4D71-8425-6374C48ED16B@microsoft.com...
> > I've got XP PRO telling me in Event Viewer that there is a bad block on my
> > drive D disk. However when I use Check Disk to check the entire drive, it
> > tells me that there are NO problems with the drive. Why would XP be
> > telling
> > me about a bad area on the disk when there is none? What else could it
> > mean?
> > Most importantly, why is XP trying to write to my drive in the first place
> > when I don't have it set up to? Thanks for any and all
> > replies/suggestions/comments.
>
> What kind of device is your drive D? One one of my computers, it is a WD
> disk, but on the other it is a CD/DVD drive.
> What parameters did you give Check Disk? Unless you told it to find and try
> to fix any bad sectors, it didn't.
> XP is not necessarily trying to write to the disk. It may be merely
> reporting what the drive electronics told it.
> Jim
>
>
>