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I cannot move files to my hard drive, from my hard drive, or in my hard drive without a high probability of my computer freezing. It took me 3 restarts to transfer 20 files to my iPod. It took me another three restarts to move 6 folders from one location on my hard drive to another. I've cleaned up the drive, I've defragged, and I don't know what else I can do to stop this problem. Do you?
Bad clusters maybe. Have you done a scandisk?
chkdsk
Yeah, that. :D
Maybe it's because you're dealing with an ipod and apple/mac sucks?
it is highly plausible that scan disk may fix this problem.
Driver problem or HW problem if scan disk / chk disk doesn't work... backup your stuff before you lose it!!
Check the cables are connected to the drive and not damaged if you're getting freezing :p
I did chkdsk /F on restart, which didn't seem to find much.
I went to File -> Properties -> Scan this Drive and that gave a more thorough scan. I was expecting it to give me a report, so I did it while I was asleep, but it didn't, so I have no idea what it caught and what it didn't. Hopefully it works, though.
Pretty sure an OS isn't supposed to crash due to locked up / failed IO operations. Reinstall Windows. Or try a new operating system.
You're late. I was getting worried.
Just my experience with WinXP, that's all :p I know linux is somewhat fine, although unhappy, when it happens :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr Unne
So, turns out this is still an issue. The computer froze once during an iPod transfer and freezes EVERY time I run a Norton scan. It seems to be during processor intensive operations, yet when I run heavy MATLAB operations (MATLAB is an engineering software tool designed to crunch out lots of complex calculations) no freezing occurs. I thought it could be because the iPod is FAT32 and the hard drive is NTFS, but it occurs during other processes as well. A few times the computer freezes for just no reason, but mostly it has been due to a lot of multitasking, or the problems listed above. Sometimes when I suspect it will freeze I open up taskman.exe and put it on my screen so I can see it when it freezes, and there's no insane memory usage, just one process that's using a lot of my processor. Any ideas other than chkdsk / get a new OS? Fix the processor? I dunno.
edit: I thought about not having enough virtual memory - but I have 672 MB to 1344 MB allocated, versus a 512 MB DD RAM. Could it be that?
Run memtest on your memory
how?
http://www.memtest86.com/
You can download a bootable floppy disk or CD image.
I ran memtest and it didn't report any errors. I didn't run it to completion, but I did run it for an hour and a half and it seemed to be repeating its tests after a while, so I stopped it.
Set a static amount of virtual memory, usually 1.5 times that of your total ram. In your case 768MB. I wouldn't recommend Windows having control over how big the swap file is.
Also, try running your system with the cover open and try doing what froze your system before. Could be overheating.
You seem to have a lot of computer problems, maybe you should try a new one?
My range was 672 - 1344 MB, so I changed the range to 768 - 1024.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Yams
I suppose it could be overheating - when it has froze, after a while, the fan starts to spin at its fastest speed. It is a laptop running on a P4M, which run hotter than the Centrinos, so that could very well be it.