Anatomy of a hang

[Undertoad]

The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block.

Oooookaaaayyy....

Maybe this message doesn't refer to the D: drive at all?

I think it's referring to the C: drive, which, in theory, is "Hard Disk 0".



This morning I have done a complete chkdsk of the C: drive. It found some problems, though its reporting leaves a lot to be desired. In the end it listed 4KB in bad sectors and did make changes to the filesystem.

Next I'll do a complete chkdsk of the E: drive (which is the other partition on that same disk).