Windows Inexperience Index Problems

[Matt2488]

Keep getting this error, not sure why.

I scanned my hard disk for errors, and attempted to repair bad sectors but nothing was found.

EDIT: Experience, not Inexperience, hahaha.

 

[cluberti]

What happens if you run the command (from an elevated cmd prompt) winsat disk -v?

 

[Matt2488]

What happens if you run the command (from an elevated cmd prompt) winsat disk -v?

It runs a few command lines, and then second window it brought up closes. It didn't even let me read what it said it closed so fast.

 

[cluberti]

Winsat runs in the elevated cmd window without spawning a new one, so what is it spawning in your case (assuming you did actually run an elevated cmd prompt... that could be what it's spawning, come to think of it, and you didn't right-click on Start > Programs > Accessories > command prompt and select "Run as Administrator").

 

[Matt2488]

What happens if you run the command (from an elevated cmd prompt) winsat disk -v?

Oh I forgot to put the Question mark in front, um it brings up the windows assessment thing.

 

[cluberti]

Just run

winsat disk -v

from an elevated cmd prompt. It *should* run the winsat disk test in the command prompt, command-line style.

 

[Matt2488]

Just run

winsat disk -v

from an elevated cmd prompt. It *should* run the winsat disk test in the command prompt, command-line style.

I ran it not sure how it's going to help though?

 

[Matt2488]

Screen shot.

 

[Matt2488]

Umm, any solutions?

 

[cluberti]

Well, not yet - but it is giving an error stating it can't open the drive. Do you have any non-fixed disks attached, perhaps removable (USB or eSATA) drives? Otherwise, it would be interesting to see a screenshot of the output in a cmd prompt after running the following commands (in this order):

diskpart
list disk

That would be interesting if this repros even without any USB or eSATA (or floppy) drives attached.

 

[Matt2488]

Well, not yet - but it is giving an error stating it can't open the drive. Do you have any non-fixed disks attached, perhaps removable (USB or eSATA) drives? Otherwise, it would be interesting to see a screenshot of the output in a cmd prompt after running the following commands (in this order):

diskpart
list disk

That would be interesting if this repros even without any USB or eSATA (or floppy) drives attached.

No external drives. For some reason the amount of free space listed is WAY off.

On my main drive which is 0, I have 397GB of space left and my Drive 1 which is my data drive, I have 186GB of space left.

 

[cluberti]

No, that's the unallocated space, not free disk space. It's disk 0 that it tries to run Winsat against, though I do wonder if it is indeed trying to run it on disk 0 or something else.

It would be useful for you to download, extract, and then run process monitor, then run the winsat disk -v command as before, wait for it to fail as your screenshot shows of the result of the winsat disk -v command, and then save the process monitor log (file > save as, all events) and then compress (Zip or RAR) the resulting .pml log file and upload it somewhere for us to take a look at.

 

[Matt2488]

No, that's the unallocated space, not free disk space. It's disk 0 that it tries to run Winsat against, though I do wonder if it is indeed trying to run it on disk 0 or something else.

It would be useful for you to download, extract, and then run process monitor, then run the winsat disk -v command as before, wait for it to fail as your screenshot shows of the result of the winsat disk -v command, and then save the process monitor log (file > save as, all events) and then compress (Zip or RAR) the resulting .pml log file and upload it somewhere for us to take a look at.

Here's another sceen shot, can I upload the log file here? Or will it be too big? Right now it's still checking my processes.

 

[Matt2488]

Wow. The process monitor crashes before it finishes. Windows brings up a message saying the program has stopped responding and it doesn't give the option to wait for program to respond, it just says close problem.

Man I'm having all sorts of problems since I upgraded!

 

[Matt2488]

Well I don't know why it suddenly started working but here we go..