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Old December 20th 17, 01:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
philo
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Default New HDD, has corrupted Data - AGAIN

On 12/19/2017 01:23 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:15:58 -0500, Paul wrote:

The reason I worry about this sort of stuff, is I was
actually sent on a plane trip from work, to root cause
why we had excessive disk failures at a certain site
in the US. When I saw what they were doing, my
jaw dropped :-) And I haven't been the same since :-)
It's not only the UPS driver who has evil in his heart.

Paul




I would absolutely run a RAM test, may be nothing to do with the drive


Any PC you pull from storage, should have some
basic health tests done on it. There's no harm in trying
that. I did that on my new machine only a couple days
ago... just in case.

Paul

How do you test RAM?

Hopefully its a Windows program, not linux....




The memory test should be run from a bootable cd

https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm


free version is fine


If there are any errors at all you do not have to run the test any
further, your memory is either bad or the contacts need to be cleaned.


Any serious errors will show up within the first few minutes, but I'd
let it run for at least an hour.


But like I said, any error at all you can stop the test