Originally Posted By: javacontour
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Correct. No effect.
Caps are capacitors. They are on the motherboard. The tops of them should be FLAT. If they are swelled, or leaking fluid, they have gone bad.
Really thinking this is not hardware since, if I understand correctly, that the C:\ and D:\ drives are simply partitions on the same physical disk.
C:\ is not having issues, but D:\ is.
If my understanding is correct, then things like cables and controllers are unlikely suspects.
My machine was infected with malware a while back, so I'm wondering if malware somehow caused CHKDSK to "identify" bad clusters and mark them bad? I've scanned with over half a dozen scanners, and have started using Microsoft Security Essentials (which fixed one malware issue I had).
The D: partition has no operation system files on it ... just my personal files (ie, photos, Word documents, Excel files, PDF files, etc.). Guess it's possible some malware could have messed up the file structure on D: ... the file structure is what seems to be bad, not the hardware.
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Correct. No effect.
Caps are capacitors. They are on the motherboard. The tops of them should be FLAT. If they are swelled, or leaking fluid, they have gone bad.
Really thinking this is not hardware since, if I understand correctly, that the C:\ and D:\ drives are simply partitions on the same physical disk.
C:\ is not having issues, but D:\ is.
If my understanding is correct, then things like cables and controllers are unlikely suspects.
My machine was infected with malware a while back, so I'm wondering if malware somehow caused CHKDSK to "identify" bad clusters and mark them bad? I've scanned with over half a dozen scanners, and have started using Microsoft Security Essentials (which fixed one malware issue I had).
The D: partition has no operation system files on it ... just my personal files (ie, photos, Word documents, Excel files, PDF files, etc.). Guess it's possible some malware could have messed up the file structure on D: ... the file structure is what seems to be bad, not the hardware.