Computer has been doing "physical memory dumps."

[Testosterone boy]

Pretty sure this is a very bad thing. Likely my hard drive is about to die I think.

I have a program that allows me to copy from one hard drive to another. Works fine though it always adds some extra data about files and what not.

Thinking I need a new hard drive rather than adding all this data to an existing hard drive.

Is it a big deal to simply copy the hard drive to a new hard drive and replace the old one before it starts pushing daisies?

Jnuts if you around....I found the power supply to that legal size scsi scanner if you are still interested. Scanner is free and it does have a top for doing negatives. Shipping is $20 though....it is pretty heavy. It worked good for me.

 

[bran987]

I would get an external hard drive and copy that stuff over. they're cheap now. messsing with the guts of my computer almost always kills it

 

[Testosterone boy]

I would get an external hard drive and copy that stuff over. they're cheap now. messsing with the guts of my computer almost always kills it

I would prefer to not run my computer off an external...plus I have an internal slave hard drive. Thinking I could empty my internal slave and then transfer the data to my slave....then make it the master.

 

[bran987]

I would prefer to not run my computer off an external...plus I have an internal slave hard drive. Thinking I could empty my internal slave and then transfer the data to my slave....then make it the master.

mmm...... BDSM is the realm of this guy sorearms, ask him

 

[Testosterone boy]

mmm...... BDSM is the realm of this guy sorearms, ask him

I am...along with everybody else. Board has lots of techies.

 

[theoak01]

mines been doing the same,my laptop is less than a year old , does this mean the hard drive is bad?

ive been getting it almost everyday lately

 

[Testosterone boy]

mines been doing the same,my laptop is less than a year old , does this mean the hard drive is bad?

ive been getting it almost everyday lately

I think it is a sign that death is imminent.

Believe I have had three dumps in the past month or so.

 

[theoak01]

fucking fuck, hopefully my warranty covers that,maybe I should start making back ups now

 

[Dial_tone]

I would prefer to not run my computer off an external...plus I have an internal slave hard drive. Thinking I could empty my internal slave and then transfer the data to my slave....then make it the master.

He said copy it over, not run your computer from it. Disable the physical memory dumps. it creates a file the size of your total memory, basically everything that was in memory at the time. useless to anyone but Microsoft. it's a waste of time and space.

CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM/ADVANCED/SETTINGS/

set write debugging info to none or small mem dump.

 

[Testosterone boy]

fucking fuck, hopefully my warranty covers that,maybe I should start making back ups now

It may very well have a warranty that will cover it. They fixed my HP with no questions after it died.

Then it died again. My HP was a disappointment. I like this old IBM lap top I came across. Trying to buy the old horse some better memory.

 

[theoak01]

dt if my settings are already that and it still happens then what

 

[Testosterone boy]

He said copy it over, not run your computer from it. Disable the physical memory dumps. it creates a file the size of your total memory, basically everything that was in memory at the time. useless to anyone but Microsoft. it's a waste of time and space.

CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM/ADVANCED/SETTINGS/

set write debugging info to none or small mem dump.

So its another tool for the police state.....damn. My initial suspicions........

 

[jnuts]

Jnuts if you around....I found the power supply to that legal size scsi scanner if you are still interested. Scanner is free and it does have a top for doing negatives. Shipping is $20 though....it is pretty heavy. It worked good for me.

Thanks for the offer, but I don't have a SCSI card.

 

[Testosterone boy]

He said copy it over, not run your computer from it. Disable the physical memory dumps. it creates a file the size of your total memory, basically everything that was in memory at the time. useless to anyone but Microsoft. it's a waste of time and space.

CONTROL PANEL/SYSTEM/ADVANCED/SETTINGS/

set write debugging info to none or small mem dump.

That was super easy. You make it sound like it is no big deal that this is happening?

 

[jnuts]

download MEMTEST and run it on your memory - your memory might be bad

 

[Testosterone boy]

download MEMTEST and run it on your memory - your memory might be bad

My memory sucks at times. Told the same story to my Mom within three days.

 

[theoak01]

i know I have low ram and this thing slows to a crawl sometimes, no spyware nothing on it, I keep er squeaky clean,so that could be it

 

[Dial_tone]

jnut - blog updated

 

[jnuts]

jnut - blog updated

Ha!

 

[Testosterone boy]

jnut - blog updated

He's not all bad though.

 

[Testosterone boy]

i know I have low ram and this thing slows to a crawl sometimes, no spyware nothing on it, I keep er squeaky clean,so that could be it

You post on this board. Likely yo computer has some type of spyware or sumthin'.

 

[Testosterone boy]

download MEMTEST and run it on your memory - your memory might be bad

I tested three computers and came out with no errors. Hell..I should plug one of those chips in my brain.

 

[Testosterone boy]

So does mean that my hard drive may be about to expire....or no?

 

[jnuts]

Probably not.... It might be a shitty device driver that is causing problems.

I'd save all your files to an external firewire/usb hardrive.

Then I'd nuke the machine with a clean install. I'm guessing your problems would be solved.

 

[digger]

First rule: WHAT ELSE CHANGED? You put in a new video card? That'll do it. Windows Update push something onto your box recently? (Trick question; they've had three pushes this week and if you aren't running WU, shame shame.)

"Dying hard drive" isn't the sort of thing I'd associate with the box deciding to take a dump; there ought to be a blue screen that mentions something that ends with .EXE or .DLL. If you see the filename it's a clue about what fell over. (Like ATI1234.DLL, that screams ATI device driver.)

And you know we have a Platinum PC support board, right?

 

[Testosterone boy]

Get this one. I hooked up my lil lap top external to transfer the data from the slave before I formatted it and made it a master.

When I disconnected the slave abruptly,I got this message: Find Fast could ot index the file. To restart Find Fast, remove the file, and double click the Find Fast icon in the Windows Control panel.

Thinking someone else was more interested in the 'Find Fast' findings.

 

[jnuts]

Find fast is a shitty utility... disable that resource hog.

 

[WarriorPL]

I think it might be a memory problem. Get memtest.

 

[theoak01]

First rule: WHAT ELSE CHANGED? You put in a new video card? That'll do it. Windows Update push something onto your box recently? (Trick question; they've had three pushes this week and if you aren't running WU, shame shame.)

"Dying hard drive" isn't the sort of thing I'd associate with the box deciding to take a dump; there ought to be a blue screen that mentions something that ends with .EXE or .DLL. If you see the filename it's a clue about what fell over. (Like ATI1234.DLL, that screams ATI device driver.)

And you know we have a Platinum PC support board, right?

digger to the rescue,i bet it was windows updates,come to think of it i get these after a new update from them

 

[Testosterone boy]

Find fast is a shitty utility... disable that resource hog.

With what? msconfig?

I always get nasty messages every time I boot up after changing something in msconfig.