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Experienced advice on disk errors please?

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Chrissirhc

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May 20, 2000
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I have disk errors with scandisk. It will say that partitions boot areas are reporting the incorrect drive size after succesful repair. The scandisk log says
for example:
Drive System (C:) contained the following errors:

The drive contained an error in its FSInfoSector.
Resolution: Repair the error
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.

This errors occurs frequently say a few times a week. A reasonable argument could be that my computer is not shutting down properly. Therefore the harddrive cache is not getting written to the drive (partition) perhaps the bootarea or (FSInfoSector, if they are the same thing) is always in the cache for harddrives and this not writting is happening when the computer crashes or shuts down. When I solve (if) this problem. If someone else posts a similar message I will be able to offer advice from my experience in a similar situation(not to say the problem will be the same neccessarily). I have posted many times in many forums about my errors but most people just say to re-format the hard drive I strongly do not want to do this unless its absolutely necessay and am looking for experienced advice on my matter or extremely logical reasoning to my problem.

I thank you in advance
(You can probably tell that this problem is really beggining to annoy me).
Ironically it has not caused any data corruption to my knowledge, but I have had the problem for a few months. I would really like to know if this problem is serious.

Chris
 
have you tried running a current anti-virus program, could this error possibly be viral gremlins in your system??
 
Yes I tried the anti virus program Dc solomons updated it about a month a go
 
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