[alan2273]

I am having a few problems with my computer running Windows 7 64bit.
It has run faultlessly for 2 months, then yesterday it booted to the Windows logo and would go no further, so I restarted and it gave me the option to do a repair which I accepted, it then said it had failed and did I want to do a restore, which I did then it asked me to reboot and it worked OK.
Today I switched it on and it started doing a disk check ( I am sure it said it was the D drive, as the OS is on the C drive).(There are two separate 250GB hard drives in this computer).
Going through the check this is what turned up,
Repairing the unreadable security descriptors data stream,
Insufficient disk space to to fix security descriptors data stream,
Repairing the security file record segment,

Then it goes on to Usn journal verification completed,
Then correcting errors in the uppercase file.

It has now been on the uppercase file correction for over an hour.

I disconnected The D drive and it booted straight into Win 7 with no problems.

How can another hard drive affect the drive with the operating system on it, it makes no sense to me.

Anyone offer any explanations?.

[Albert Lionheart]

Windows 7 will check all drives for errors at boot and will attempt to scan and correct any errors it finds. It is possible that your drive D:\ is badly corrupted and the repair either taking a very long time - it has been known - or is beyond repair. As the machine boots quite happily with the drive disconnected I suspect the latter and you should bin it.

[alan2273]

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Windows 7 will check all drives for errors at boot and will attempt to scan and correct any errors it finds. It is possible that your drive D:\ is badly corrupted and the repair either taking a very long time - it has been known - or is beyond repair. As the machine boots quite happily with the drive disconnected I suspect the latter and you should bin it.

I have just been on the WD site and the drive is within warranty, so I am RMAing it, I only hope there RMA service is better than Corsairs as they stink.

[Albert Lionheart]

Samsung RMA service is good and Maxtor is even better!