Question from a noob
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You could just do standard windows trouble shooting: reinstall windows.
It might work if it is only windows that is the problem.
It might work if it is only windows that is the problem.
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Do you have ownership of the files/folders in question?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
Just do it from the root of your drive and include all subfolders. It will take a while to do.
After that see if you have any problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421
Just do it from the root of your drive and include all subfolders. It will take a while to do.
After that see if you have any problems.
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I've had a similar issue occur at work and it turned out to be the memory. Run a program such as memtest86+ to see if you might have bad memory. Also, you can run a hard drive diagnostic to see if the drive is physically damaged (e.g. bad sectors or S.M.A.R.T failure). See here and download the IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test utility. You can also download the utility from your hard drive manufacture, but the IBM tool works on any make/model without any issues.
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jenslyn wrote...
The chkdsk utility would have found any problems with the harddriveYou say that, but I've known some (albit older) Seagate drives that appear fine, both in Windows chkdsk and even a low-level diagnostic utility to appear fine, but when I ran SpinRite, it found 1,000,000+ seek errors; so even the Windows chkdsk may not always find if a drive is faulty.
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With memtest86+ you put it on either a cd, flash drive, or floppy and set your boot order in the BIOS to that first and have it run. To access the BIOS you have to hit a certain key during boot which is usually the delete key or any of the F keys at the top.
The Pre-compiled package for floppy (DOS - Win) has a ReadMe file in it that explains how to do it.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Guide-to-using-Memtest86-t246994.html is a good guide too. Remember Google is your friend.
The Pre-compiled package for floppy (DOS - Win) has a ReadMe file in it that explains how to do it.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Guide-to-using-Memtest86-t246994.html is a good guide too. Remember Google is your friend.
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i don't want to make another thread so i'll put my noob question here
Question : Can you put 1GB RAM DDR2 and 2GB RAM DDR2 at the same time?
Question : Can you put 1GB RAM DDR2 and 2GB RAM DDR2 at the same time?
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skoodlez wrote...
Can you put 1GB RAM DDR2 and 2GB RAM DDR2 at the same time?Yes, but matching pairs will benefit from Dual Channel, aka a performance boost.