![]() ![]() If the drive's done some mileage, I'd be tempted to run the manufacturer's diagnostic software, usually obtainable free from the manufacturer's website. While your chkdsk should map around bad sectors, the prescence of these could indicate a developing problem. An obvious concern would be a hard drive on the way out and starting to corrupt files. (FWIW, a quick browse seemed to produce references to AVG, but this might be unfair as most of what I found is quite old.) Hopefully, recent updates will address problems, though, so it should (!) be OK if it's fully up to date. a) run a full scan with it (plus Malwarebytes and whatever else you like) b) it's not totally unkown for antiviruses to misbehave. As ever, drivers are high on the list of Usual Suspects, especially if any hardware's been updated/upgraded. If you've installed any new hardware/software recently, you might have a hint there. When did you last run a disk check? I'm not convinced that these are routine necessities, but it might do no harm - the old "chkdsk." This might just rectify odd problems. Let it run and repair any problems it finds. That done, I'd be tempted to run a system file check ('cos it's quick and easy and just every now and then cures mysterious faults.) Open an elevated command prompt (ie "run as administrator"), type sfc /scannow and press Enter. As ever, a misbehaving computer is a useful reminder to check that your back-ups are fully up to date. If you're concerned, then you might like to try a few of the Usual Checks. My only action was to wait and see whether it eventually sorted itself out, which it always seemed to do. I haven't managed to update a Vista computer for so long that I don't know whether it still happens. Vista did something similar to me on a number of occasions, usually following an update. The support was excellent with my query resolved within hours, something quite unusual these days.Being very lazy, I must say I'd go along with ddw's response and ignore it if it proves a one-off. ![]() For some this can be quite useful information. Try Back2Life sometime as it also has a preview function and can tell you the recovered file starting cluster and the number of clusters the file has. I'm not naive enough to expect software to recover all lost files as that is often impossible to due system overwrites especially if disk space is low. By chance I came across Back2Life from and gave it a go and to my surprise it did access the drive and recovered every item I was interested in. I had tried numerous other apps but in vain and none of them would let me even access the drive. I bought one expensive piece of software as I was desperate to recover some data and mistakenly thought that as it was expensive it would have the ability to solve my recovery problems. PS I have no links to other than being a satisfied may be right about run of the mill software having a poor recovery record but it doesn't necessarily follow that expensive software will deliver the goods either. The support was excellent with my query resolved within hours, something quite unusual these days. ![]() May be right about run of the mill software having a poor recovery record but it doesn't necessarily follow that expensive software will deliver the goods either. ![]()
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