What does this mean?

[yoshi]

My PC showed this kind of message for seven hours or so since I turned it on this morning.

What kind of problem is this?

The monitor stopped showing the running message in the evening and then PC went to power saving mode.

When I turned it on soon once more, it seems everything is in order.

Is this a symptom that the hard disc is going to die?
Serious or not that type of issue as the message says it is "corrected"?
Can I keep it using for a while?

The only reason I can think of why the hard disc is in bad temper suddenly is that ... I posted in another thread that I was interested in replacing the hard disc with a SSD.

yoshi

[rogleale]

Re: What does this mean?

Hi Yoshi,

It would seem that your machine had a problem on the HD but has now recovered. Are you on Windows 7?

If you are I would suggest that you run a dskchk on the next boot.
To do this shut your machine down, reboot and hit F8 - this should enable you to start the chkdsk process. If not, let us know about it, there are other ways to run it.

Roger

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

Many thanks, Roger.
My PC showed the same symptom this morning again but this time I followed your advice. After doing the chkdsk, when rebooted, the PC started without showing such a problem. I also cleaned and made a defrag.
Now I can concentrate on others. thanks indeed.

yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

One of USB memories showed the same symptom today. So I did chkdsk again.
When I try to look into files of the USB, it just says that I have to format the USB.
Is it always so in case of USB memories? - files are lost when chkdsk is done?

This is a question simply out of curiosity.
The files in that USB seem to be lost but that is fortunately not a problem at all, as that is just one of safety spare memories of frequently used files.

yoshi

[Ian]

Re: What does this mean?

Hi Yoshi,

If you are getting these reports regularly, then something is not stable in your system. With the USB drive you might find it works if you plug it into another PC?

Ian

PS Make sure your backups are recent!

[rogleale]

Re: What does this mean?

Hi Yoshi,
The first message referred to a problem on your HD, if this new one refers only to a usb memory, ie shows up when you plug a usb device in, it is probably only that device which is faulty and should be abandoned. Did the original problem show up just after you had used this usb thing, because it is possible that corrupted external data could have caused it.
Normally files are not lost on a chkdsk, the OS maps out the faulty clusters so as to not use them again, but it is very unusual to call a chkdsk on a usb drive, normally it will call up a format.
Let us know if anything shows up and as Ian said, make sure that your backup is up to date.

Roger

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

Oh? Could it be a serious problem?
well, let me see. I have to follow your advice. The problem is that I have one more self-built desktop here in Fukushima but that one is at the moment dead. I found it two days ago.
At least I have to change the power supply unit.

The only reason I can think of is the thunder that hit my place two months ago a day before I left Fukushima for a trip. The dead rooter was replaced only several days ago after I came back here.

My notebook was also killed last year by thunder. Every year thunders rip off something from me.

We have a saying here. The four dreadful things in life are earthquake, thunder, fire and father. Father has no more been dreadful but as far as the first two are concerned, they surely give me lots of troubles. Until last year it was thunders only but this year I got one more...

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And thank you again Roger for your kind advice. Yes, you are right. Now I'm starting to think that the HD problem, which I found earlier, must be created by the USB. As a spread sheet file in the USB showed something funny responses but I copied it to internal HDD's (not C drive).
yoshi

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

One of my anti-virus softs found a worm named conficker.B. in my two other USB memories.
I hope it does not give dpnow and others any troubules.

I am now thinking if or not this worm is related to the recent troubles I had in the past few days. I used all the three USB memories and a portable HDD while on a trip at various net-cafe or so.

The one in touble was physically demolished. Thanks again for your advice, Roger.

yoshi

[rogleale]

Re: What does this mean?

Hi Yoshi,

You do have a problem don't you, and I'm pretty sure this is what caused your recent problems. The problem with Conficker is that it is a worm which propagates easily from usb flash drives especially if you have auto-run enabled for usb, cd, and dvd inputs. The MS Malicious Software Removal Tool should remove it but I recommend that you read THIS and do as it recommends.

Let us know how you get on,

Roger

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

Hi Roger,
thanks a lot for the link which is informative to understand what conficker is.
The security essentials had already downloaded the latest definition automatically.

I made a full scan using two anti-virus softwares and both detect nothing anymore. and I did it one more round using custom scan mode for all the internal& external drives including of course USB memories. Also nothing.

The history shows that the worm had been removed from unspecified drive several days ago, before the same was detected in and removed from the two remaining USB memories two days ago. So I guess that was from my demolished USB memory.

I'm now wondering why I do not find the worm in the portable HDD that was alos connected to a host PC at net cafes via USB.

At the moment I find no more false signals but if I do, I will post it here.

yoshi

[Ian]

Re: What does this mean?

Oh? Could it be a serious problem?
well, let me see. I have to follow your advice. The problem is that I have one more self-built desktop here in Fukushima but that one is at the moment dead. I found it two days ago.
At least I have to change the power supply unit.

The only reason I can think of is the thunder that hit my place two months ago a day before I left Fukushima for a trip. The dead rooter was replaced only several days ago after I came back here.

My notebook was also killed last year by thunder. Every year thunders rip off something from me.

We have a saying here. The four dreadful things in life are earthquake, thunder, fire and father. Father has no more been dreadful but as far as the first two are concerned, they surely give me lots of troubles. Until last year it was thunders only but this year I got one more...

----

And thank you again Roger for your kind advice. Yes, you are right. Now I'm starting to think that the HD problem, which I found earlier, must be created by the USB. As a spread sheet file in the USB showed something funny responses but I copied it to internal HDD's (not C drive).
yoshi

Thunder or lightning?

Out of interest, were you using a surge protector on the electricity supply to your laptop? I often wonder if these really work.

Thankfully our weather here in the UK is rarely extreme enough to cause dangerous lightning surges on the electricity. But I still use surge protectors for some of our more expensive electrical devices!

Ian

[yoshi]

Re: What does this mean?

Thunder or lightning?

Out of interest, were you using a surge protector on the electricity supply to your laptop? I often wonder if these really work.

Thankfully our weather here in the UK is rarely extreme enough to cause dangerous lightning surges on the electricity. But I still use surge protectors for some of our more expensive electrical devices!

Ian

Well, I had to look into dictionaries. "Lightning" seems to be the proper word in this case.

A surge protector is an indispensable equipment here. In that particular case, I used an extention cable that had a surge protector feature inside and it can protect until 12500V. But it actually failed to protect the lap top.

In general, I use surge protectors for almost all electiric appliances here incl. refge, washing machine etc. etc., except for maybe elec. heaters or microwave oven which requires a direct connetion to a wall elec. consent.

I have to add however that some protectors are good until 4500V only, some others until 6000V or 12500V. Some lightnings however exceed 15000V. I added two new ones which say good until 60000V this year.

The guy who repaired and replaced the looter with a new one ten days ago said to me when leaving, "see you around this time of the next year again.". He knows that this area is a passage of thunders/lightnings.
They come to my place once a year or so in the past four years for the same purposes.

My sufferings while staying in a montain in Fukushima come from wild boars, stinkbugs, lightnings and the new addition this year, the radiation. But I like to stay here.

yoshi