?? If your PC says "restart", then RESTART! Why would you stop that? It has to restart for a reason in order to complete the installation processes! You're just asking for more problems if you just keep installing things and don't restart when it says. The fact that the 250gb is scanning that much faster that the smaller one is ANOTHER warning sign.
You mention errors, but you never say what they are. You're going to have to ask AOL any AOL questions, or at least another AOL user. Obviously AOL is installing Gator and Apropos since they are showing up right after a reformat, and if you haven't installed anything else. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In a message dated 9/5/2004 8:05:32 AM Central Daylight Time, orpheuscomputing.com writes: > A bad sector problem is going build and build and build until it just > "implodes". That many bad sectors is certainly a sign of impending doom and you > should have replaced it when you first saw the bad sectors. Reformat. I just did, today....twice!! I no sooner finished copying my files from the D drive back to the C when I decided to reboot so that some of the stuff I just installed would take affect, I held off on rebooting everytime a new installation ocurred, figuring they could all take affect at the same time. I shut down and it restarted nicely, for about 5 seconds. All of a sudden it went into Safe Mode, of all things. From that point onwards, I had to keep rebooting every few seconds and I'd get the same error messages every time. So I decided to just go through installation all over again. I saw no other way out of it. I installed AOL and tried to put my old e-mails and what have you back into the AOL file. It's the Organize, file, isn't it? Well, I tried 5 or 6 times, and each time, I STILL couldn't get my old mail to show up in the filing cabinet. It's STILL not there. Any clues? I need a lot of these old letters. Well, here's the straw that broke the camel's back: yesterday the anti-spy got up to about 19000. By my calculations it would take another three weeks for it to run it's course. All of a sudden I got 4 or 5 error windows back to back, within about 2 minutes. I couldn't do a thing anymore, so I shut it off and restasrted. when I did, it was like, all of a sudden, I got my computer back!! It stopped running slow, in some cases, and I could actually use this beast. I started to run anti-spy again and it ran with no problems at all. In 10 minutes it was done and found two spies, the same two, Gator and Apropos. Besides this, I began having trouble shutting it off!! This morning I needed to scan a few records foir a bok I'm helping someone write. I turned on the puter, is started you So I just decided it was time to reformat. I'm exhausted right now and can't kep my eyes open, so I'm off. Dale You're wasting your time until you do that. That MIGHT map out the bad > > sectors and mark them unusable for a new OS install. You should use your 250gb > HD as the main OS drive and partition it (C: Windows, D: Program Files, E: > Storage) and that would save you the $ for a new HD (unless it's still under > warranty). It is however best to have two HD's in case your main one fails you > have all your saved data/storage on a separate drive. It doesn't really matter, I think I'm going to buy another new on anyway. I've been thinking about making he D the master for some time now. At the moment, I can't. I have half of the drive full. > > Sure, the larger the HD the longer it's going to take to run ANY kind of > scan. I'm not sure now which HD you're scanning. You'd think so, but the 250 goes light lightening and the 40 takes forever. If I run AVG it automatically runs both back to back. In 15 minutes, it's done!!! Dale ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
