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Old January 29th 06, 05:59 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.acer
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Default Imminent Hard Drive failure on an ACER Aspire 3000?

"Jason Ducharme" wrote in
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Hi,

I bought this notebook brand new 6 months ago. It's an ACER Aspire
3003WLCi. Recently I've had a lot of problems with applications "not
responding" and having to be closed. Upon reboot recently i'm
getting the message that one of my hard disks needs to be checked for
conisistency. It does a checkup of the disk (takes a long time) and
then it reports that "Windows replaced bad clusters in file .... "
Does this mean that my hard drive is failing (has failed?) and needs
to be rebuilt/replaced? Should I contact ACER about this problem (I
think I have 1 year warranty on the machine.)



hard-drive failures are usually accompanied by noise/sounds of some sort.
the reason you are getting the 'must be checked for consistency' and 'bad
clusters' messages is because your computer is (presumably) not going
through the proper shut-down process (i'm guessing you just power it off
when things stop responding).

programs not responding etc. are more of a software problem than anything
else. are you sure you don't have any spyware? viruses? what did you
install before this started happening?