On Friday night I decided to reinstall Windows after becoming more convinced of this being a software issue. It took an unusually long amount of time for formatting; over three hours. Other than that, everything seemed to be working fine so I thought that it was all fixed.. until now.
I was sitting here browsing CD and all of a sudden everything started hanging for about a minute or two. That was followed by this message popping up:
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Originally Posted by Windows Event Log
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 7/23/2006
Time: 7:04:59 AM
User: N/A
Computer: TRITON
Description:
Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file C:\System Volume Information\_restore{58237B07-6D58-4612-AFE7-89EC23AF2441}\RP23\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFT WARE. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.
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Also in the event log is almost 100 entries saying this:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation. These all occured during the 6-minute duration of the hanging.
After this everything was still working but I decided to run the Dell Hardware Diagnostics again, and it still came up with the same errors described in the original post.
When I run CHKDSK, this is what I get:
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Originally Posted by CHKDSK
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
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I would go and ask Dell support about this, but the last time I had a problem they told me to take out the battery from my laptop, unplug the AC, and see if it would stay on or not...
As a note, Windows is still usable. I can't check Ubuntu because I haven't configured GRUB yet.
What should I do now? I'm still not going to rule out a software issue - ordering a new HD is the last thing I want to do.