Computer crashed. Your opinions please.

[Phumfeinz]

I was surfing the internet, listening to music, doing what I normally do, when the computer stopped working.

There was nothing for it but to turn the computer off and back on. Naturally it encountered some errors on the reboot, and I got the disk-checking screen, where it showed this message:

'Insufficient disk space to correct errors in index $I30 of file 29.'


Couple of reboots later, it managed to 'correct the errors', and I could log-on.

Couldn't do much though. Nothing responded. I managed to boot into safe mode and system restore back to last week.

Now I can log-on, and everything seems to be working correctly. However, on inital log-in, I get error messages such as

'Failed to initialize MSNMESGR.exe'

and a few others like that.



So what's the deal? Can I fix it? What was the 'Insufficient disk space to correct errors in index $I30 of file 29' message about?


Thanks.

[glc]

Time to run manufacturer's diagnostics on the hard drive. It sounds like bad sectors, possibly a head crash.