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    vaio FZ and WIN 7 wierd hard disk issue.help please

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by dr.pratik, Jan 10, 2010.

  1. dr.pratik

    dr.pratik Notebook Evangelist

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    hello everybody,
    i have got vaio fz140 eb model which came with windows vista home premium and 200 gb disk.

    i have installed western digital 500 gb disk drive which was running fantastic till 4 days.i have installed windows 7 home premium family pack on this system.

    issue i am facing is weird.few days ago i copied few GB of data from western digital portable drive of my senior.while copying data,it was scanned by Kaspersky internet security which found some 70 virus .it managed to fix them all.it was fat32 formatted drive.

    now problem is my laptop becomes unresponsive for long duration.then only thing i can do is forced shutdown.after restart.it does chkdisk and says fixing this fixing that.

    but problem is still their.what i realised is it was giving errors on some perticular file.

    i ran western digital life tools to diagnose this drive.it says SMART test pass but it says this error

    Quick Test Results: FAIL
    06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 73 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 1

    what do i do with this??

    i thought that virus might have screwed up system files . i cant do system file integrity check as well.

    kindly help me.
     
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    UserofFZ21Z Notebook Consultant

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    I would install a registry tool and see if it can repair some or all of the broken links caused by the virus problem. With that many viruses I would evaluate what kind of sites you visit and get a good virus protection program with real time protection.
     
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    :eek:

    thanks for your advice but,its not my drive and i do use licensed regularly updating version of kaspersky internet security.
     
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    i feel my drive is scheduled for RMA only.i cant complete diskcheck on this c drive partition.
    rest 2 partitions are working fine.

    another observation-it hangs on classpnp.sys driver in safe boot.

    i have moved all my data to external drive. i used to use VISTA Activation Backup Recovery tool for my vista re installs.

    will that ABR tool work for windows 7??

    i feel either format and re install or Get New Drive

    what should i do??

    this 500 GB Drive is in warranty of western digital.
     
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    I'd be tempted to reformat, and make sure the external drive you transferred from was 100% virus free, other wise you'll probably end up with the same issue again, and I don't think the Vista tool will work.
     
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    ok.
    i shall format this entire drive once and lets see.what it does.
    thanks UserofFZ21Z