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Old 05-17-2009   #1 (permalink)
Alfred Kaufmann


 
 

Your hard drive is corrupt and unusable

The Event Viewer of my friend's computer shows a lot of errors saying
that his hard drive is corrupt and unusable. On every re-boot the
Disk Checker starts up and does its thing only to report there are no
problems.

Could there be some other hardware problem that would cause Vista to
report these type of errors? My friend did take his machine into the
shop to be checked out be a Certified Technician and they told him
that everything was OK. At least they did not charge him for the
service.

I am a bit concerned that he had a lot of programs operating in the
background which caused a lot of memory swapping as he has only 1GB of
memory. What is the minimum amount of recommended memory for Vista
now? I think it used to be 1.5GB, has that changed?

Thanks
Al

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