While creating a word document on my WINDOWS VISTA Home Edition desktop, I received a million warning messages saying, "! SYSTEM MESSAGE - WRITE FAULT ERROR, A write command during the test has failed to complete. This may be due to a media or read/write error, the system generates an exception error when using a reference to an invalid system memory address". Then SMART HDD appeared(I have no idea what this is) and did a S.M.A.R.T. check. The smart check came up with 7 Repair issues. The first two in critical status are: 1)"HARD DRIVE BOOT SECTOR READING ERROR-During I/O system intialation, the boot device driver might have failed to initialize the boot device, file system initialization might have failed because it did not recognize the data on the boot device." 2)"SYSTEM BLOCKS WERE FOUND-this has most likely occurred because of hard disk failure, this may also lead to a potential loss of data." And one in dangerous status message: "ERROR 0X00000024-NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM".
When I clicked "REPAIR 7 ISSUES" it asked me to activate SMART HDD-to buy the license for $84.50. I really have no idea what this is & if it will repair my desktop if I buy it.???????
I unplugged everything and when I restarted the system, my user screen was blank, no background picture & no shortcuts except for the Recycle Bin. When I clicked start to look for my programs, there were no programs.. it read "empty"
ARE THERE ANY GEEKS WHO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH MY COMPUTER? THANK YOU!!!
When I clicked "REPAIR 7 ISSUES" it asked me to activate SMART HDD-to buy the license for $84.50. I really have no idea what this is & if it will repair my desktop if I buy it.???????
I unplugged everything and when I restarted the system, my user screen was blank, no background picture & no shortcuts except for the Recycle Bin. When I clicked start to look for my programs, there were no programs.. it read "empty"
ARE THERE ANY GEEKS WHO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH MY COMPUTER? THANK YOU!!!