So randomly last week my laptop went haywire, and I got some driver failures. The hard drive would constantly be trying to access and then I'd get a fault of some sort, either page file error, stack overflow, or a driver failure, memory dump and then reboots.

Well, I've done a complete system restore and its been okay, except it starts doing the constant hard drive access from time to time. I've found hitting the hibernation shortcut seems to stop it and then when the system comes up again, all is well.

I've run scandisk, and it didn't come up with anything, however I'm wondering if there is a more through disk scan tool available to download?

3/21/2006 1:43:45 AM

- Spyware? Search for it in Tech Talk.
- BIOS option may be setting your hard drive for "performance" mode.
- Anything unusual in a HiJack This log?

3/21/2006 5:33:51 AM

- No spyware, the system is completely clean, and hasn't been on the internet.
- Sony doesn't place a "performance" mode option for the harddrive in BIOS, which shouldn't of changed.

As I said, it seems like the hard drive is polling, I have seen it happen in OLD systems (Windows 95) when the hard drive started getting bad sectors. Unfortunately I don't know any programs that will truely take the time and scan the integrity of each individual sector. Scandisk might do this now, but I have no idea, the documentation on it is a bit lagging.

3/21/2006 8:20:55 AM

atapi.sys failed, AGAIN. I'm at my wits end here. I don't know if it is a bad hard drive, or if the image on the drive (good job Sony), its causing a kernal stack overflow.

The thing I've noticed it to particularly happen with (but not always by far) is when flash starting up in Internet Explorer.

Ideas?!?

3/24/2006 9:59:49 AM

i spilled coffee on my laptop harddrive and it wouldn't boot after that. i sprayed it with air freshner to make it smell not-like-coffee and returned it however.

3/24/2006 11:03:31 AM

Kernal Stackpage error

caused by ntfs.sys


Just shutdown the damn thing, wireless turned off, just typing in notepad with iTunes in the background....

Its a Sony VGN-S260P, damn thing just broke a year old in November.

3/24/2006 2:36:06 PM

THE SOLUTIONS IS CLEAR TO ME

DOWNLOAD DEFRAG.EXE TO YOUR RAMDACS AND ALL PROBLEMS WILL BE RESOLVED

3/27/2006 4:27:01 PM

And officially Toshiba said the drive is shot today, however it will be another two weeks before I get a shipping notification or even a tracking number, hopefully.

4/25/2006 11:18:51 PM

You might could try HDD Regen.

It comes on Hiren's Boot CD.


I've had mixed results with it's sector recovery.

4/25/2006 11:53:16 PM

The failed sectors were mostly hardware faults, the thing booted with a S.M.A.R.T. failure and finally I had the ammo I needed to yank the thing. Still bitter at Toshiba though for their 10 to 30 businness days turn around..... ugh.

4/27/2006 12:37:34 PM