I hope someone can help me out on this. I'm not a novice, but I'm not
far from being one either. The problem started with an unusably slow
operating system. I ran chkdsk on both of my drives, and this seemed to
fix the problem, since I saw several bad sector events in the event
viewer. But, the CPU is now constantly being taken up by a svchost.exe
process and windows search index process. From what I could find out,
it seems that some dll files in system32 and winsxs folders are
corrupted. I was in the process of restoring them. I ran the system
file checker, and since there were files that it could not 'repair', I'm
using Windows AIK to mount a .wim file from my vista installation dvd
where all the good dll files are. However, I'm not entirely sure that
the system file checker repaired the files that it said it did after
all, since it advises me to run it again after "the maximum files have
been queded for repair" for the third time. Alas, my hard drive seems
to have developed more bad sectors in the meantime. As of recently I
ran a DOS program from my the manufacturer of my hard drives to repair
the bad sectors, again, instead of chkdsk. What is the best course of
action? Anything that may help. Thanks.


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ghostp780 wrote:


I hope someone can help me out on this. I'm not a novice, but I'm not
far from being one either. The problem started with an unusably slow
operating system. I ran chkdsk on both of my drives, and this seemed to
fix the problem, since I saw several bad sector events in the event
viewer. But, the CPU is now constantly being taken up by a svchost.exe
process and windows search index process. From what I could find out,
it seems that some dll files in system32 and winsxs folders are
corrupted. I was in the process of restoring them. I ran the system
file checker, and since there were files that it could not 'repair', I'm
using Windows AIK to mount a .wim file from my vista installation dvd
where all the good dll files are. However, I'm not entirely sure that
the system file checker repaired the files that it said it did after
all, since it advises me to run it again after "the maximum files have
been queded for repair" for the third time. Alas, my hard drive seems
to have developed more bad sectors in the meantime. As of recently I
ran a DOS program from my the manufacturer of my hard drives to repair
the bad sectors, again, instead of chkdsk. What is the best course of
action? Anything that may help. Thanks.



Before I did anything elaborate with the operating system (software), I'd
run a diagnostic utility on the hard drive. It sounds like the drive has a
physical problem and if this is so, you need to replace the drive and then
reinstall Windows.

Test the hard drive with a diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive
mftr.'s website. You will create a bootable CD with the file you download.
You will need third-party burning software to do this such as Roxio, Nero,
or the free CDBurnerXP Pro. Burn as an image, not as data.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Boot with the CD you made and do a thorough test of the drive. If it fails
any physical tests, replace it.

Malke
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