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From: OREALLY on 7 Jan 2010 22:57 But why should a third party search program like Ransack have no problem searching the Backup Disc and do it in a matter of seconds, if there is a corrupt sector of the drive? Oreally "Tim Meddick" <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote in message news:O5ouW4AkKHA.1824(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > As "Nil" pointed out - have you tried to follow his advice and run CHKDSK > /F from the Command Prompt, on your "D:" drive? > > A PC "freezing" in the middle of a disk I/O operation can be symptomatic > of data corruption on the drive. > > Quite often hard-disk data corruption can be caused by many different > things and doesn't have to mean that your drive has nearly died. > > But the result can be that if Windows cannot read a section of a drive, it > will constantly go over and over the same spot trying to read it, causing > a "lock-up". > > The solution, if this is the case, is as simple as running CHKDSK /F D: > from a Command Prompt window (if files on the D: drive are in use, you may > have to press 'Y ' in answer to the question - Do you want chkdsk to run > at next boot? - then, when you next reboot, chkdsk will run then). > > == > > Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) > > > > > "OREALLY" <oreally(a)comcast.net> wrote in message > news:eGKoSAAkKHA.1536(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Apparently the problem is specific to the Backup 'D' drive. It takes >> forever to search and seems to be repeating search of the files and >> folders. This does not happen in the main 'C' drive search. It's been >> scanning for almost 2 hours looking for wav files. There is about 200GB >> worth of info on the 500GB drive. >> >> Still searching.....if I stop the search...computer freezes up. >> >> Ransack finds about 600 wav files on this drive in a few minutes.....so >> what's with XP? >> >> >> >> "Nil" <rednoise(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message >> news:Xns9CF99CCDDE0E9nilch1(a)130.133.4.11... >>> On 07 Jan 2010, "OREALLY" <oreally(a)comcast.net> wrote in >>> microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize: >>> >>>> Whenever I STOP a search while it is searching the computer >>>> freezes up and I have to go to task manager to end the search. Any >>>> reason or repair for this? >>> >>> Maybe there is some file system corruption that Search is choking on. >>> It might be a good idea to run CHKDSK... but better back up your data >>> and system first, in case it decides to repair your disk into an >>> unbootable condition. >> >
From: Nil on 8 Jan 2010 02:28 On 07 Jan 2010, "OREALLY" <oreally(a)comcast.net> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize: > what??????? Ever heard of "google"? > "Leonard Grey" <l.grey(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:u1xWuYAkKHA.2164(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Any help from a web search? Use... >> >> windows xp search is slow >> >> ...as your search term.
From: Tim Meddick on 8 Jan 2010 17:39 You could be right there - I will admit a strong possibility that I am wrong about that. On reflection, I was thinking of read-only media such as a CD-ROM (which I absolutely know for a fact has that effect because it was the subject of an exhaustive thread a while back in "xp.general" before you start on me for saying that). At least I can admit when I'm wrong. But I wouldn't discount that some type of data corruption could result in a similar effect. Perhaps someone who knows absolutely every bloody thing about everything would. Notwithstanding, it is still good advice that [chkdsk /f] be run on a drive that is behaving errantly. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
From: Tim Meddick on 8 Jan 2010 17:45 "OREALLY" <oreally(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:OhKTBbBkKHA.4912(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > < clipped > "why should a third party search program like Ransack have no problem " I don't know for sure - just a thought... Some search utils use a database. i.e. they take their pretty time over searching all files on all drives, and then caching the results. Then, when you "perform" the search it's actually the cached results that are being searched - not the drives themselves. This may not be it in your case though, but it is a possibility... == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
From: OREALLY on 8 Jan 2010 19:51
Tried the search in Safe Mode........same problem when stopping search on backup Seagate Drive...freezes up computer. Tried a CHKDISC in Safe Mode also. It stalls out at the end of Phase 4....just sits there for hours! There is a folder 'Acronis Image' with 90 GB of data in that backup drive. I'm wondering if that has something to do with it? Oreally "Tim Meddick" <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote in message news:Olh5KRLkKHA.2188(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > "OREALLY" <oreally(a)comcast.net> wrote in message > news:OhKTBbBkKHA.4912(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> < clipped > "why should a third party search program like Ransack have no >> problem " > > > I don't know for sure - just a thought... > > Some search utils use a database. i.e. they take their pretty time over > searching all files on all drives, and then caching the results. > > Then, when you "perform" the search it's actually the cached results that > are being searched - not the drives themselves. > > This may not be it in your case though, but it is a possibility... > > == > > Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) > > |