Help Please----$0 of file 25 erroe

[txdrenner]

If someone could tell me how to permanently get rid of this message I would be so happy.

" Deleting an index entry from index $0 of file 25 ".

I have done chkdsk /f and chkdsk /r but it still comes back (not everyday). Did it this morning and (XP) rebooted itself and did chkdsk all by it's self. This is making me crazy !!!!

txdrenner

[Ed2020]

I don't have a solution to your problem, but I can tell you what I'd do to troubleshoot...

If this is an intermittent problem then I'd suspect the drive may be on its last legs. To be on the safe side I'd start by making a backup of all your important files as a matter of some urgency.

After that I'd download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic tools and run those. This should run a far more in depth test than chkdsk (which only checks the drive's file system) and also look at the drive's SMART data.

I'd also take a look in Windows' event logs (accessible via Control Panel) for messages around the time the system has rebooted itself.

Worth bearing in mind that drive diagnostics are going to work the drive quite hard. If it is in the process of failing then diagnostics could be enough to kill it off for good - backup first!

Feel free to post back diagnostic results and anything of interest from the Windows event viewer if I can do anymore to help.

Ed.

First job back up Second job take a ghost image or similar Third job boot from xp disk delete partition and format fully. Fourth job reinstate ghost image.

Are there any other signs of hdd failure? do the check disks find errors? I assume by the fact you have run chkdsk /r its all been done outside windows so did it find any bad sectors? did it complete?

[vanman]

Where to download the hard-disk-drive diagnostic utilities for a particular major make of hard drive
Seagate - SeaTools: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...loads/seatools
Note that Maxtor and Quantum drives use SeaTools (above).
Western Digital - Data Lifeguard: http://support.wdc.com/download/
Samsung - Choose Hutil or Shdiag:
Hutil - http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...ort_HUTIL.html
Shdiag - DOS utility - http://www.samsung.com/global/busine...rt_Shdiag.html
Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Fujitsu: http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/c...utilities.html