"Alfred Kaufmann" <al_kaufmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
>
Alfred
It is time to do a destructive restore. Judging from what you stated in your
earlier post, you have been brought into play rather late in the game.
There comes a point where a user does so much damage to an operating,
installing one rogue anti-spyware utility after another, that trying to
repair it will take way longer than it is all worth.
Normally, users who get into this state tend not to be the kind who have
backed any data up to external media, so you will have to tell your friend
that it is all a lost cause.
Your friend may learn from the experience, but you will have to do a little
tutoring of your own if you don't want to go through the experience again..
--
Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/