HARD DRIVE

hi
i use diskeeper 10 and the message i get is

Warning

The overall health of volume C: is degraded

The overall health is at ''Warning'' level for the following
reasons:

1. The volume is heavily fragmented. The average number of
fragments per file is 1.03.

and another thing is if i do a virus scan the HD makes sum loud clicks and with these sometimes makes the pc freeze :S

hi ya
and thanks for your thoughts yeah ive tried that scandisk about 3 times but it dont change nothing with it

ive tried cleaning the drive wright up so ive only got what i need on there.

the only other thing is that it makes a loud cliking noise **HD** when i do a virus scan on it :S

Try the standard Windows Defrag utility..Does that allow you to defrag?

XP SP2 doesn't have the "Scandisk" program like Windows 98/ME. Instead, it uses "Error Checking/Chkdsk" to scan the hard drive for errors..It requires the computer to be restarted and runs outside of Windows after a reboot..If you haven't rebooted and let Chkdsk run per the instructions I gave previously, then you haven't run it correctly.

On the other hand, it DOES sound like the hard drive could be headed south. The "clicking" noise you mention may not be a good thing. Make sure you've backed up all your important files.

Hope this helps.

Grif

thas the one error check yeah i done that one 3 times you have to set it up then reboot and then it starts the program so the hard drive is dieing i had my doughts

is there any programs that like test the health of the HD and tell you whats wrong :S

Each manufacturer normally provides its own free diagnostic utility..See the link below:

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=%2Fen_us%2FSupport%2FSoftware%20Downloads%2FAll%20Downloads&downloadID=22

Or a copy of "Spinrite" would probably do the trick but it requires a purchase price.

Hope this helps.

Grif

hi ya
and thanks for your help i will try all theses soloutions and report back and to tell you if they helped
many thanks

hi
if i got a new HD would i have to put a fresh copy of xp home on or can i use the old o/s from the bad drive or will the bad drive carry over corupt files :S

Considering what you are experiencing, I'd do a new install with your system CDs. (You did keep those in a safe place, right?)

If you HD was in good health, you'd use the utility the new drive came with to format and copy all your files.

yea i have all my driver disks lost my home disk but can buy another one or i might wait till vistor comes out and have that.

i think im goin to get a Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 160GB 1600JB ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM

any good ?