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General discussion

stop error

May 15, 2005 6:05PM PDT

i am having frequent stop errors . ithe blue screen gives the error PAGING ERROR IN NON PAGED AREA (or something to the same effect) and in ntfs.dll . does this mean the error is in my hard drive . i know there are bad sectors in the drive . could this be the problem . also i ran windows memory managment and it found no errors in my cache or ram memeory. if its not difficult could u reply in mateen_83@hotmail.com

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Since you know there are bad sectors in the drive
May 15, 2005 8:03PM PDT

are you prepared for a possible hard drive failure?

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Most likely a hard drive error
May 16, 2005 6:06AM PDT