Bad clusters on XPS 720

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• 2 bad clusters... Backup restore Microsoft does not work... now what

  My dv4 windows 7 SP1 has 2 bad clusters. CHKDSK replaced both of them.  Gdiplus.dll and motccg.inf.  The Microsoft backup will not save or restore my backup of Microsoft because of these bad clusters.  Can I use my full Windows7 install disc - not a restore disc and solve this problem?

  Not sure why I made backups of Microsoft if they don't restore because of these bad clustgers, but it is the State that I am now.

  I replace the hard drive and use HP restore disks to reinstall Windows.

  Back up your important data to an external storage device, the hard disk may fail completely, and you will lose everything.

• The number of bad Clusters should settle in?

  When a popular backup program ("BUP"), I was running for the first time stopped dead about 40%, I was told by the technique of the BUP supports that I had to do a ' CHKDSK [drive letter]:------/ r "then try the BUP.  CHKDSK finds well over 160 "bad clusters" which it "replaced".  I ran the BUP a 2nd time to bar the 63% that it froze.

  Unlike a robot, I think that as a robot - I use my knees.  I advanced the reasoning and again ran "CHKDSK [drive letter]:------/ r.  Like the first time, the utility has found a large collection of bad clusters.

  Then the knee kicks.

  I understand that "CHKDSK [drive letter]:------/ r ' and what to expect?  I know from experience things can get hairy with a soft who likes to rearrange the objects on disk.

  The question becomes: If "CHKDSK [drive letter]:------/ r" is supposed to 'fix' the bad clusters should it not do this on the first pass?

  Since he obviously didn't, I refrain from this approach until I better understand its use.

  A matter of subtext could also be: EVERY drive is not some bad clusters?

  In the meantime, I'll see what the BUP manufacturer must say whether or not his program has zero tolerance for bad clusters.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  I suggest you get the data on the system and try to back up any important data, because this HDD is maybe going bad.

  For more information about backup, see these links:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-your-files
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions

  It will be useful.

• XPS 720, video card and sound card upgrades?

  Greetings-

  A friend gave me his old Dell XPS 720, which I updated to Win7-32.  The upgrade went fine--too easy in fact - and now I'm sorting on all other smaller issues.

  I need a recommendation for a new graphics card and a new sound card.  The only thing I use this box is to maintain a website via Adobe CS4 Dreamworks, with the other tools in the suite and surf the net.  No game, no rendering heavy, etc.

  What I want-

  -Decent color - graphics but no fan if possible.  The map in this area is now an INVIDIA GTS of the G-Force-250 - and the fan noise is terrible.  My needs are quite easy - is there a map smaller, quieter that I can put on this case in order to eliminate the a fan (which seems to be the highest fan in the Pack)?

  Sound card - open what it is as long as it fits and works with this box and Win7-32.

  Thanks for your help/advice-

  -Sean

  The integrated SigmaTel 9227 audio system should be good for your use. But any PCI sound card purchased locally would work or you could get an its PCIe x 1 card. Here's what we delivered =
  CT602 PCI Sound Blaster
  F7710 PCI Sound Blaster X - Fi
  WW202 PCI Sound Blaster X - Fi XtremeMusic

  You should check newegg for price and photos for the PCIe x 16 video cards. This link is sorted by lowest price to highest. None of them work so you have at least a 750w power supply. When you have found a video on the site map, I would look for it locally.

• No sound from my XPS 720!

  System:

  XPS 720

  Quad Core Q6600, 2.4 GHZ

  Windows Vista Premium 32-bit SP2

  4 GB OF RAM

  XFI soundcard

  nVidia 9800GT (nine yesterday)

  WD 160 GB HDD

  SP2208WFP monitor

  AS501 Flat panel stereo speakers

  and much more

  The problems started 2 weeks ago when my 8800GT video card quit on me.  I finally replaced it yesterday.  I now can't not all sounds on my computer, nada, nothing, nowhere in any way.  And I don't think I tried everthing to understand.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  In no particular order... 1 restored the system to the factory settings.

  2 disconnected and reconnected my speaker (it's an all in one model attached to the bottom of my screen, I use the earphones especially

  so I do not need good speakers)

  3 uninstalled, and reinstalled the sound card. (material)

  4 uninstalled the old and reinstalled the latest drivers from the disc and soundblaster web site. (software)

  5 I checked all forums, all 65 943million 297thousand 477 billion web sites (maybe OK I exaggerate a little bit).

  In any case no sound, no wav, no windows startup sounds, no music, no games, no internet.

  6 I went into Device Manager, audio video and game controllers to check if the drivers are recognized... and they are.  the device is functioning without conflicts.

  7 I went to control panel, sounds,reading , and although there are 4 options work to choose that I selected the Creative SB X - Fi (of work) speakers as my default.

  (The other 3 options are "SPDIF out Creative SB X - Fi (work)": "1 Live online!) Virtual cam (work)":"digital output (SPDIF) SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC (work) device.

  8 I went into Control Panel, sound, recording , and there are also 4 options work.  I have selected Microphone Array monitor Webcam (SP2208WFP) (work) because my microphone is built into my monitor.

  I've had this computer for 16 months with very little problem.  Video card all of a sudden the mouse and card now his acting upward.  The above settings are correct because I put them?  Is there something in the bios that I might have to change.  I've never been to the BIOS and I think it's a very scary place.lol

  In any case, any other suggestions would be appreciated.

  Canada-eh (CDN-eh)

  try turning off the audio sigmaTel. It is the motherboard audio and not needed by a card.

• How to install in my Dell XPS 720 H2C cooling system?

  I have a Dell XPS 720 and I want to put inside H2C cooling system, but I can't find where the power cable from the cooling system is going.

  When everything has failed, read the Manual.

  #26 on the motherboard, page 89.

• Audio not working Dell XPS 720 H2C with Windows 7

  Buy a Dell XPS 720 H2C with XP in 2008. Last week made a new installation to upgrade to Windows 7 (made by Micro Center). Have tried to get help through Dell... a lost... cause the last time I buy Dell. The audio card is a card OEM, "Driver Creative Labs Sound Blaster X - Fi XtremeMusic (D). Everything else seems to work very well. Diagnosis of device driver shows that everything is OK.

  Any ideas where to go from here?

  Answer was not helpful, but I appreciate the effort. Found the second site was a bit Advanced for me but looked interesting enough to sue later. Finally chased the problem to map its; called Dell and ordered a replacement. Let's see if that fixes the problem.

• Computer is frozen mode System Check. It shows that he replaced bad Clusters

  My computer freezes in a mode of control of the system.  The background is bright dark blue trim (Windowsxp inright corner). He

  This shows: replaced bad clusters in file #...

  \System 1\_RESTO 1\RP195\A0019085

  It shows lines of this and I can't remove it and it seems to be frozen and replacement of the bad clusters in all my files. Anyone all this experience? or explain "replaced bad clusters in file" mean?

  Thank you

  You hard drive may be at fault: test your drive - create a Bootable CD:
   
  Test your drive with the car manufacture utility.
  If you have a new hard drive Seagate the very next thing would be to download Seagate Seatools
  (bootable CD) and check bad sectors.
  SeaTools for information: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
  SeaTools for Windows download: http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/saturn/seatools-win-master/
  SeaTools for DOS download:
  http://www.Seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/LD25-series/SeaTools-DOS-master/

  For Western Digital readers to download the .iso from WdDiag file: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=611&sid=30&lang=en

  Samsung Estool: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/ES_Tool.html
  Samsung Disk Manager software: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm

  Hitachi Drive Fitness Test Software: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
  Diagnostic tool available for use by customers who feel they have a Fujitsu brand

  Toshiba hard drive:
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesandSupport/WarrantySupport/SoftwareUtilities

  Notice of suport Fujitsu disk utility: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/storage/hdd/

  Toshiba CD bootable: (BACK Diagnostic Tool version 7.0 for IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks)
  http://SDD.Toshiba.com/main.aspx?path=ServicesSupport/FujitsuDrivesUSandCanada/SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Removal of XPS 720 Raid 0

  Hello

  I just bought (and waiting for delivery of) a machine XPS 720 and I will be eager to delete the Raid 0 among the readers. I guess I would need to do the first action I think I have to reinstall the operating system later.

  Could someone advise me how to do this? I think that once I have reinstall from the recovery disk that the Raid 0 will be just reimplementation, I don't have any experience with Raid any so I apologize if this is a silly question.

  
  

• Restoration of matrix RAID 0 in XPS 720

  XPS 720
  SATA RAID 0 with two drives of 250 GB
  Vista Home Premium

  The machine does not start. I have a Dell short start screen, then a black screen with "Missing Operating System" in the upper left.

  I ran diagnostic HARD drive under boot options F12 and the two discs. I started on the Dell operating system DVD and tried a repair of the BONE, which failed (details mentioned corruption of the partition table). I'm not sure how to fix a corrupt partition table. I opened a command prompt and use the bootrec.exe to repair the MBR (/FixMbr), who succeeded, but the machine would not boot. Bootrec.exe tried to repair the boot sector (/FixBoot), which failed. I tried to reinstall the operating system, but could not access the drive C:\ (no recognizable files on this drive system).

  I am inclined to C:\ reformatting and reinstallation of Vista, but I have no experience working with RAID arrays and not sure how to proceed from here. I don't want to break the table. If I reformat C:\ and use the OS from Dell DVD to restore the system to "factory condition", that will be the original of the RAID 0 configuration restoration or will I need to do it "manually" after reformatting? If the latter, it can be done easily by entering the configuration and activation RAID 0 on two drives before reinstalling the operating system? If so, then using the operating system DVD Dell to restore the system to "factory condition" will be used to partition the table as it was shipped? I don't know that it is very obvious that I am well over my head here and quite clueless. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you!

  
  

• XPS 720 sleep problem

  When I put the system to sleep, the power button flashes as he sleeps, but the Panel lights up and the fan remains running.  It is a new issue as it has always worked before.  I would like to help you to diagnose this problem.  I have installed a new hardware/software and I am at a loss as to why this is happening now.

  Thank you.

  Hi Orionrph,

  Unfortunately, there are 1 million reasons why desktop computers are unable to enter the mode 'sleep'. Here is an article on diagnosis troubled the sleep mode. This is where I would start.

• Will be full system recovery card known areas around bad disk C: and Clusters?

  I have a "PC HP Pavilion p6210y Desktop" run "Windows 7 Home Premium x 64".  CHKDSK said my C: drive is so corrupt, I have to do a "Factory System Recovery" my purchase date of 2009. I can't make backups, so I'm moving all the data files on my E: drive (most of them is already there, like E: is my "data disk". C: is the original Western Digital disk).

  Here is my latest entries of data of 'bad disc' CHKDSK...

  ========================================================================================

  Cleaning of index 0 file $SII 6 unused entries x 9.
  Cleaning of index 0 file $SDH 6 unused entries x 9.
  Cleaning 6 unused security descriptors.

  CHKDSK checks Usn Journal...
  36221248 USN bytes processed.
  Audit of the USN Journal is complete.
  Remove the wrong file of clusters of clusters 1.

  Free space verification is complete.
  Adding 1 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters in file.
  Windows has made corrections to the file system.

  612436832 KB total disk space.
  272996964 KB in 203557 files.
  137428 Ko 38378 index.
  4 KB in bad sectors.
  396536 KB in use by the system.
  65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  338905900 KB available on disk.
   
  ========================================================================================
   
  What I need to know is...
   
  If I do a "Factory System Recovery" of "FACTORY_IMAGE" (D :) ', the recovery process complete "map around ' clusters and bad sectors and produce a full C: recovery accurate?  Or is - this disc 2009 so old that I need to replace it and reinstall Windows 7 using my "system repair discs?

  If you use the /r switch in Chkdsk it tries to fix the bad clusters or move the data to a cluster of good.  CHKDSK will isolate the bad cluster and do not use it.  Maybe it's time to think about replacing the hard drive, it could be near the end of its service life.

  You can perform a restore factory on this hard drive, but you must back up the data that you have on your E drive on an external drive, preferably an external hard drive, because they can be erased.

  You need to install a new hard drive, it must be of equal size or greater than what you have now.  To install the new OS, you will need to use recovery discs that you can order from HP.  If you live in the USA/Canada, call HP at this number 1-800-334-5144 and see if you can still get a set of recovery disks.  Otherwise the site worldwide: http://welcome.hp.com/country/w1/en/support.html

  If HP does not have the recovery disks, you can order them from the surgeons of the computer:

  http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-18128-recovery-kit-gv405av-for-HP-model-number-p6210y.aspx

• bad cluster

  Hello

  I have a Dv3-4305se. I have a few bad clusters on my HARD drive and I think the best way is to replace it. Am I wrong?

  could you be kind and tell me what type of HARD drive I should looking for?

  is this laptop support sata2 or ssd?

  my choice is a 1 TB sata2 7200 RPM probably wd or seagate. is it ok? do you another reccomendation?

  is there something specific I should consider when I buy one? I mean the dimensions and specifications of the hhd?

  Thank you

  Hey there Aminam,.

  Your computer supports SATA and all SATA drives are compatible. Even if you get 2 SATA or SATA 3 disks, they are backwards compatible and should work fine, just with a lower speed. SSD should also work perfectly with your system, once again to your SATA speed supported (probably lower than that supported by the SSD).

  Pretty much any 2.5-inch SSD should work fine in your system.

  For the HARD drive, I might suggest you see WD Black series (if you want a 7 200 RPM). They are reliable, with the duration of the guarantee, fast and smooth race and are designed to deliver great performance in laptops. Here's a link: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=790#Tab2 .

  You can also view double WD - WD Black2. It combines a 120 GB SSD with a 1 TB HARD drive in one. Unlike hybrid hard drives, it also gives you the freedom to choose what to store on the SSD part and what to keep in the part of the HARD drive. Here is a link to that too: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1190

  Hope this helps

  Captain_WD.

• Mix-up of XPS

  Hi im new to the site, I came o have a xps 720 cases of black thought he looked cool and decided to rebuild the thing, but it wasn't until I ordered a new motherboard that I discovered in the confusion I got a Council xps 700 (jury of dimension) that I read, they can't stand not core2quad rather, is this right?
  or is anyone know how t get their hands on the Board of OEM xps720 as not wanting to get int cut back up again for conversion ATX, that was the idea at first, but my current asus P5ne-sli is dying on me and the need to quickly swap.

  skdz

  Hi im new to the site, I came o have a xps 720 cases of black thought he looked cool and decided to rebuild the thing, but it wasn't until I ordered a new motherboard that I discovered in the confusion I got a Council xps 700 (jury of dimension) that I read, they can't stand not core2quad rather, is this right?
  or is anyone know how t get their hands on the Board of OEM xps720 as not wanting to get int cut back up again for conversion ATX, that was the idea at first, but my current asus P5ne-sli is dying on me and the need to quickly swap.

  skdz

  You are right, the XPS 700 has no support for Core 2 Quad processors.

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3514/t/19250725

  It relates to the purchase of a card mother XPS 720, I used Google and found the following:

  https://www.Google.com/?gws_rd=SSL#q=Dell+XPS+720+motherboard

  Do not forget that the XPS 720 motherboard requires a block of power SUPPLY Dell highly proprietary:

  [16] https://www.discountelectronics.com/category?Product_Model=83&category=2&gclid=CJOEyaDH18sCFQoNaQodxs0MpA&PRODUCT_TYPE = 16? PMC = ADWTEXTUS

  http://FTP.Dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_xps_desktop/XPS-720_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.PDF

  Bev.

• Replacement of ATI cards in XPS 8500

  Im looking to buy an XPS 8500 system to replace my old, but faithful, XPS 720, when Dell begins to deliver systems with Win 8 onboard in native mode. My question is if I can replace the ATI onbard with an a nVidia card like nVidia n guy? Thank you!

  Eric

  Yes.  AMD or Nvidia cards will work.  With the new 8500, I'd look for recent PCI Express 3.0 cards because the motherboard will support them.  Therefore, the 7000 series AMD or Nvidia 600 series.  More Nvidia GTX 600 cards will be released if all goes well, by the time you want to get one that will work with your diet.  Do not forget that the 8500 XPS will have only one unit of 460 watts compared to what you have on your 720 which is either 750 or 1000 watts.