Help Mderms with his un-leet system

[¥Mderms¥]

Hmm...maybe a problem with your HD? Can you still read/write to it OK? (i.e. can you still play Halo single player and use savegames OK?) If so, copy everything important (that you can't reinstall), like any Word Documents you need, to another medium (like a stick drive or CD) and try changing HDs.

BUT! ONLY DO THIS AS A LAST RESORT, EVEN IF ALL ELSE FAILS

There are other less drastic methods probably, so wait for Mxy to give input

I can play Halo multiplayer just fine, but when I try to play Campaign an Exception error occurs.

As an experiment I popped in a disk that I havn't used in years (Call of Duty) and it says I couldn't play it because "You might not have enough memory to play Call of Duty", even when it was run in Safe Mode (the game) it would do this.

So I don't think it has anything to do with my Halo Disk, which, I'm assuming is what HD means in this case. If not, please feel free to correct me.

I don't really know what else to tell.

'Sounds to me like you didn't select the "Set" button before you "OK"d out of the window....

Check that the value has changed to 512MB....

And as I said before I am 110% positive that I hit the Set button, and when the login screen came on after the reboot the same message appeared again. So I'm still at a loss as to what to do. 

[MrMxyzptlk]

Did the CHKDSK report any problems when you ran it before??

[¥Mderms¥]

Other than it took a bit longer and had ALOT more text of gibberish that I don't understand fly accross my screen, not that I know of.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Other than it took a bit longer and had ALOT more text of gibberish that I don't understand fly accross my screen, not that I know of.

Those were likely ERROR MESSAGES about stuff that was repaired.

Run it again, and keep running it over until you just get the summaries and nothing else. (Note the "/F" parameter on the chkdsk command line, too....  You HAVE been running it with that, right??)

E.g.:

C:> chkdsk x: /F
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is JustChecking.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

 200876728 KB total disk space.
 107468644 KB in 9247 files.
      4336 KB in 496 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     81868 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  93321880 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  50219182 total allocation units on disk.
  23330470 allocation units available on disk.

[¥Mderms¥]

For some reason or other it didn't run it after typing in the prompt and rebooting the system.

WITH the "/f" parameter this is what shows up.



I hit "Y" and restarted the system, and it went straight to the login screen. No scan or anything.


I tried it WITHOUT the /F parameter; ("Read-only mode" apparently) and this was the result.




I'm not sure what the "/f" parameter is supposed to do, but I'll try it again with the /f parameter again. If it goes straight to the login, then I'm totally lost.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Um, that's very, very bad.

Portions of your disk data are unreachable due to file system corruption.

Um, YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER after you tell it that!

(I'm pretty sure it "remembers" tho, so do the restart now and see....  If not, run it again and the restart it immediately after.)

Anything and everything else you're doing on your machine since these problems arose is potentially making it worse, BTW. That is why you need to get a SUCCESSFUL chkdsk BEFORE doing anything else....

[¥Mderms¥]

Ok, I reran it and on the restart it ran through it fully, but I don't know how to post the results of the scan -.-

Second try through (after login)


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry cmls_ms.tlv in index $I30 of file 72477.
Index verification completed.

Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>


Now what?


EDIT:

This looks a bit more promising.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

  80035798 KB total disk space.
  28379836 KB in 128336 files.
     44588 KB in 8495 indexes.
        24 KB in bad sectors.
    602458 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  51008892 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  20008949 total allocation units on disk.
  12752223 allocation units available on disk.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

[MrMxyzptlk]

Sounds to me like you didn't have the "/F" on the CHKDSK line....

You need to do that, and let it run after rebooting again, EACH TIME until there are NO MESSAGES other than the status ones like in MY posting.

(I.e. You STILL have disk errors....)

[¥Mderms¥]

Other than it took a bit longer and had ALOT more text of gibberish that I don't understand fly accross my screen, not that I know of.

Those were likely ERROR MESSAGES about stuff that was repaired.

Run it again, and keep running it over until you just get the summaries and nothing else. (Note the "/F" parameter on the chkdsk command line, too....  You HAVE been running it with that, right??)

E.g.:

C:> chkdsk x: /F
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is JustChecking.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

 200876728 KB total disk space.
 107468644 KB in 9247 files.
      4336 KB in 496 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     81868 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  93321880 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  50219182 total allocation units on disk.
  23330470 allocation units available on disk.

Quick question.

C:> chkdsk x: /F

Whats the x: in there for? Because I'm not putting in the x when I run it.


Edit:

and yes, I AM running it with the /f parameter before restarting. But the only way I can get a "report" so to speak, of the scan isw by running it WITHOUT the /f parameter. Unless there is another way, because the way I'm doing it doesn't seem to be working.

[MrMxyzptlk]

The "X" in "CHKDSK X: /F" is the disk drive letter, usually "C".

...And you need to use the "/F" form EVERY TIME and start it from the Windows Command Prompt window, make/let it reboot and it SHOULD then run it that way....  (Dunno for sure, it's VISTA, but if it DOESN'T work that way it'd be RIDICULOUS because that would leave NO WAY FOR SOMEONE TO REPAIR THEIR HARD DISK DRIVE ERRORS....  )

If you're SURE that it's NOT acting like the "/F" is there upon booting, then do this:

Boot into "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" by hitting and holding down the <F8> key when your computer boots up.  Once it boot s into Safe Mode (take a while) and presents you with a Command Tool window, do the "CHKDSK C: /F" there, over and over again until no errors/fixes are reported....

[¥Mderms¥]

Bump.

Finally got a clean scan. And I found out that safe mode scares me.


And I'm STILL getting the initial message that the paging file is too small, btw.

[MrMxyzptlk]

Bump.

Finally got a clean scan. And I found out that safe mode scares me.


And I'm STILL getting the initial message that the paging file is too small, btw.

That's because IT NEVER DID ANYTHING, because your hard disk was messed up!

Follow the instructions in my previous post about that, now that you've gotten a clean CHKDSK scan....

It should work now....

[¥Mderms¥]

Yet the message persists.


Another interesting little tidbit. Halo is now starting to freeze up, similar to the problem Mig had.

[¥Mderms¥]

bump

[Tåndêm]

Aye aye aye, I forget about the forums for a few weeks, and this problem still persists?

How old is your hard drive (incidentally, HD means "hard drive", not CD) anyway?