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over heating hard drive or vrius or bad data???

Sep 12, 2004 2:59PM PDT

I have a problem i have been geting bad read errors from time to time but latele it have been just chashing all together and locking up i can't play games anymore...so i went to my dad, he works on computers so i asked him and he said that it might be a virus sooo he gave a a few websites to go to and they found 4 so i cleaned them all up soo now a virus free right so i go to play a game and it crashs again, so i tryed to re-install windose 89 se and it locks up trying to copy over files -.- so i went to do scandisk in dos and it locked up at sec 638.794 so what is this a bad sector? a new virus? or just some over heating note that i got a cooler on the hard drive and i lifted it off of my cd\rom -.- help some one send all respones to
Wolfrages@hotmail.com
ty again wolfrages

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SPAM? hard drive or vrius or bad data???
Sep 12, 2004 9:30PM PDT

Your post has your email in the clear. This forum is crawlable and EMAIL HARVESTERS will get that address.

Have you tried another drive?

Bob

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Re: over heating hard drive or vrius or bad data???
Sep 12, 2004 10:20PM PDT

Here's the issue with a heat problem, besides correcting for proper cooling, any data going to a "over-heated HD" maybe corrupted as it becomes written in an unstable mode, the data is simply not as it should be, thus when cooled, the data isn't seen corrected and thus is corrputed due to heat issue. Even though the actual R/W heads are working properly they're dealing with a "drift" of data when written. Open the case, power-OFF and feel the HD and if its too hot, use got a problem. Leave case cover off and place household fan to quickly cool the system, if problems start to go away, great if not replace HD or at least reformat and start anew. Cool system with added fan(s) or better fan(s).

BTW, don't place your email address openly, spam is sure to follow. use this format wolfnamee@removethish0tmail or similar(get the idea)

good luck -----Willy Happy