Recent content by cparke

UPDATE: Seems to be working again today. Not entirely sure what I did, but two things that have happened: 1) It's been 3 days since I booted Windows 7. 2) Using MSCONFIG.EXE, I switched to Diagnostic Startup (which disables most services), then back to Normal Startup to re-enable them. Windows...

I recently began noticing some run problems with my Windows 7 installation, culminating in HWINFO64 even being stuck at the opening splash screen with "Flushing Buffers ...." Generally, the system is running or slow or gets hung on certain processes (most noticeably system-related apps like...

That really could be made a bit more clearer, just throwing a fraction in someone's face is not intelligible. And is it true that every manufacturer's algorithm for these various normalized values is proprietary and unpublished? I really wonder if the 141 will rise over time if no more bad...

Example: [05] Reallocated Sector Count: 141/140, Worst: 141 (Data = 467,0) I think this means the hard drive has encountered 467 bad sectors and reallocated them. Is that correct? But then what does the "141/140, Worst 141" mean? I think these are counters of some kind, but it's...