That's not a good message. I would run a drive fitness test on said drives and review that the person who installed the OS did install the latest motherboard and SATA drivers. XP will degrade from DMA to PIO when such errors happen which will make XP very slow.
The test program is from the drive maker.
Best of luck and hope you don't lose your drive data.
Bob
I have noticed recently that booting up my computer takes a considerably long time. The boot was hanging for 10 seconds on the first Windows XP loading screen (the black one). I also noticed that when it was hanging the drive activity indicator was constantly flashing unlike the variable flashing when booting up.
I had a look on the System Event Viewer in Control Panel and I noticed that it records about 20 of the following errors every time I boot -
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation.
I think that this is referring to my drive 'D' which is not the drive which Windows is on but it is where my games is stored. It is a Samsung SATA drive.
I did a disk check on the drive and scanned for surface errors aswell. Unfortunately someone else in my house closed the results so I never knew what they were.
However the problem has not been solved. I look on the Microsoft knowledge base article for this error http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780/en-us which told me to replace the drive the error appeared frequently, which is something I do not wish to do (the drive still has a warranty though). Just for reference I have three hard disks in my computer. One IDE Samsung drive for backup (drive C), one SATA Samsung drive for games (drive D) and one Seagate SATA drive for Windows (drive G).
Both the SATA drives are about 2 - 3 months old.

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