Harddisk Error!: The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.

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Harddisk Error!: The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.

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HI Everybody,

Hope some one can help me with this. Every 30 to 40 minutes, Event Viewer logs the following

The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.

When I do a an Error Check (checkdisk?) on my 3 hard drives I get "No Problems we're found on this disk" .

How can I tell which drive is generating the error and why can't Windows 7 Error Checking find a problem?

Clues:

Can something else be causing this? I'm getting some other erros like this one from Outlook: "Outlook Search has encountered an error and is temporarily disabling indexing for store." and this one from Acrobat: "Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Designer 8.2\FormDesigner.exe".Error in manifest or policy file"

Also, my Samsung printer I think caches to a virtual disk and I'm using Mozy backup which creates a sort of Virtual Disk that looks like a local drive.

Finally, is there a better way to diagnose this problem?

I have posted the full log for the Disk Error below. Thanks in advance.

Greg

original title:Harddisk Error! Ack!

+	System

			-	Provider	<br>	---	---	<br><br><br><br>				[ Name]	Disk	<br>	---	---	---	---	---

			-	EventID	7	<br>	---	---	---	<br><br><br><br>				[ Qualifiers]	49156	<br>	---	---	---	---	---

				Level	2	<br>	---	---	---

				Task	0	<br>	---	---	---

				Keywords	0x80000000000000	<br>	---	---	---

			-	TimeCreated	<br>	---	---	<br><br><br><br>				[ SystemTime]	2010-05-19T15:55:55.563712100Z	<br>	---	---	---	---	---

				EventRecordID	22830	<br>	---	---	---

				Channel	System	<br>	---	---	---

				Computer	conker-PC	<br>	---	---	---

				Security	<br>	---	---

-	EventData

		\Device\Harddisk1\DR1

		030080000100000000000000070004C0000100009C0000C000000000000000000070615A0B000000A27A080000000000FFFFFFFF01000000580000840200000000200A1240032040000000003C0000000000000000000000E8060F0480FAFFFF00000000000000009025CF0380FAFFFFB075BC0380FAFFFFB830AD0500000000280005AD30B800004000000000000000F00003000000000B00000000000000000000000000000000

Binary data:

In Words

0000: 00800003 00000001 00000000 C0040007

0008: 00000100 C000009C 00000000 00000000

0010: 5A617000 0000000B 00087AA2 00000000

0018: FFFFFFFF 00000001 84000058 00000002

0020: 120A2000 40200340 00000000 0000003C

0028: 00000000 00000000 040F06E8 FFFFFA80

0030: 00000000 00000000 03CF2590 FFFFFA80

0038: 03BC75B0 FFFFFA80 05AD30B8 00000000

0040: AD050028 0000B830 00000040 00000000

0048: 000300F0 0B000000 00000000 00000000

0050: 00000000 00000000

In Bytes

0000: 03 00 80 00 01 00 00 00 ..€.....

0008: 00 00 00 00 07 00 04 C0 .......À

0010: 00 01 00 00 9C 00 00 C0 ....œ..À

0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0020: 00 70 61 5A 0B 00 00 00 .paZ....

0028: A2 7A 08 00 00 00 00 00 ¢z......

0030: FF FF FF FF 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....

0038: 58 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 X..„....

0040: 00 20 0A 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @

0048: 00 00 00 00 3C 00 00 00 ....<...

0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0058: E8 06 0F 04 80 FA FF FF è...€úÿÿ

0060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

0068: 90 25 CF 03 80 FA FF FF %Ï.€úÿÿ

0070: B0 75 BC 03 80 FA FF FF °u¼.€úÿÿ

0078: B8 30 AD 05 00 00 00 00 ¸0.....

0080: 28 00 05 AD 30 B8 00 00 (..0¸..

0088: 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @.......

0090: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 0B ð.......

0098: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

00a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

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Anonymous

This link should assist you in identifying the problem disk, even though it was written for Windows 2000:

How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865

About your Outlook error message: the command ScanPST.exe in the Office11 or Office12 folder might fix the problem.

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Anonymous

You need to download and run the diagnostic program that your hard disk manufacturer has on his web site.

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Answer 1

Anonymous

In my case DR1 was an external drive with a bad block, unplugged it and my problems went away.

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Answer 2

This link should assist you in identifying the problem disk, even though it was written for Windows 2000:

How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865

About your Outlook error message: the command ScanPST.exe in the Office11 or Office12 folder might fix the problem.

Not necessarily

Answer 3

Hi Pegasus,

Thanks for the response. You know, I have run Western Digital diagnostics on all my 3x Western Digital drives and they all pass. Is Physical Disk 1 the same as DR1? As mentioned before, I also have a virtual disks in the Mozy backup; could this be it?

Finally, I'm getting this Outlook error:

Windows (3084) Windows: The database page read from the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb" at offset 36765696 (0x0000000002310000) (database page 1121 (0x461)) for 32768 (0x00008000) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch. The expected checksum was [50d2af2d86f77022:096ef6910673322f:82437dbce7d35aeb:bd8942766f1a85da] and the actual checksum was [50c7af389488df64:096ef6910673322f:82437dbce7d35aeb:ce5c31a30eb05949]. The read operation will fail with error -1018 (0xfffffc06). If this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

Does this provide a clue? Should I just assume that that my drive is about to fail? If so, which one?!

Thanks,

Greg

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