>From Klitos Kyriacou <Klitos.Kyriacou@kkkkkk.com> via accu-general list.

Hi,

My hard disk failed this morning - well, actually it was like a
"graceful degradation" whereby an increasing number of applications
started crashing. After running CHKDSK I managed to get it into a state
where I could reboot and see what went wrong. I ran Event Viewer and
noticed that there were hundreds of System Event logs telling me that
there were bad sectors on the disk. Going further back in time, I found
this warning System Event:

"The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted
that it will fail.  Immediately back up your data and replace your hard
disk drive. A failure  may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."


Note, that was just an entry in the event log. Thanks Microsoft! I would
have expected an event of this seriousness to be displayed in big bright
red letters in front of me with a button labelled "Yes I WILL get a new
hard drive!" But no, just a System Event that went totally unnoticed
until it was too late.

The moral: check your system logs using the Event Viewer applet
regularly! There may be something very serious in there.

Does anyone know of any utilities that check the system logs
automatically for you?

Cheers,
Klitos