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Greetings WD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Hi WD I suppose that you have tried unticking the setting to have it minimize to the system tray when closing. Have you tried a chkdsk? Thanks for answering solbjerg. OK WD And what is your setting concerning how often to autodefrag? If it is 1 minute I myself would not find it strange if it showed always I think. I even feel that the fact that it is showing reminds you that the autodefrag option is chosen :- I only use it if I test it in order to answer a user having problems.

Cheers solbjerg Thanks for answering solbjerg. So there is a bug in Smart Defrag, not in Windows, which need to be fixed. Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. It appears, with rare exceptions, only when the PC is started each morning. Once or twice in the six weeks since I purchased the computer, the error did not appear.

I've run diagnostics on all the hardware, followed the recommendations on the HP site to correct this error, run Chkdsk, and talked to the HP tech support. The only thing left is to wipe my hard drive and do a system recovery. Before doing that, I need to know if there is anything else I can try. On again off again error messages are by far the hardest to correct but lets give it a shot. Tom, the disk boot failure could come from a number of sources.

Know that if something is incorrect here it may force you to go to a computer repair store and have your BIOS re-established.

In a word? T drive reporting is enabled. If it is, disable it and give it a test run of days under a regular rebooting cycle to see if the error persists. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology is a somewhat outdated standard developed as an "early warning" system to detect hard disk issues.

If your desktop is newer, it may not even be available as an option as it is not widely used these days. The SMART technology while useful under certain circumstances had an extremely wide margin of error and would throw errors on boot occasionally when there would be nothing from either a physical or configuration standpoint failing or pending failing in the drive. While we're in the BIOS, I'd recommend that you ensure that it is recognizing the drive correctly on each startup.

The easiest way to ensure this is to reset your BIOS default settings. While on the BIOS screen, look for an indication either along the top or bottom designated by one of the function keys I believe it used to be F10 to restore defaults. Be sure to save your changes and exit. Again, where you did not get the error every time, you may need to monitor it's progress to see if the error returns.

Second , physically check all cabling. Power everything completely down, remove the side of the case to give access to the drives and start with reseating the cable both at the drive end and the controller where they plug into the motherboard ends.

Ultimately, if you were to pick up or could somehow borrow a different IDE cable to test for a short time it may also call out a failed or failing cable as well.

Third , we can't overlook the possibility of a failed drive itself. If any of the steps on the HP forums resemble those suggested above and have already been attempted, the issue may well point to the disk itself. How old is your system out of curiosity. HP had a now-infamous recall issue back at the early part of with a batch of Fujitsu brand hard disks. I realize this option is quite a stretch given the timeframe. Keeping with issues with the drive itself however, if all steps listed above don't correct the errors, there could be a strong possibility of a failing disk.

Since you say it will boot on occasion the failure may not be severe enough at this stage to completely fail, but a total inability to boot may be looming on the horizon. If the system is still within the warranty, HP will replace the drive for you you will most likely have to ship the tower to them in a postage-paid box they will send you if you are unfamiliar with the repair process.

Should the system be outside of any manufacturer or extended warranty you may have purchased additionally, you will need to purchase and have a new hard drive installed.

Some facilities may be able to salvage information off your original disk for transfer although where you are still at a point where your OS boots occasionaly, backing up data important to you is something I would go about starting ASAP before installing the new one.

I hope one or a combination of the recommendations I've made correct your issue. Reader Karen Writes: On XP when you go start bar, and right click and choose task manager, only the running tasks show up with the options of end task, switch task and new task. The "-", "X" to close etc is missing from the top. The only way I can close it, by right clicking its icon on the start bar and select close. When you open up Task Manager in Windows XP, there is no title bar, menu bar, or program tabs showing.

This problem is easy to fix, the Task Manager is running in "tiny footprint mode". To correct this, simply double-click on the border around the window and it will return to its normal state.

I accidentally deleted the icon a few days later and i had also ran a disk clean up. Now when i try to use the disk defragmenter, windows say that the shortcut does not exist. Also i tried to open defrag. However, once i open it, a window pop out and it is black with words and then it disappear. I want to use the Windows Disk Defragmenter but without the icon how am i ever going to use it again. Pls help me as soon as possible. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.