Anatomy of a hang

Undertoad · 03-21-2006, 04:27 PM

Moving files from D: to C:, the system got really slow during one set of files, and hung during one particular file.

When I returned to explore that folder, the system hung again while I was just browsing the suspect directory. I didn't even open any of the files.

Luckily I don't need any of those particular files. I've been able to move just about everything else off of that partition.

Sadly there is another 20GB partition to move before the entire disk can be swapped out. But we have a key suspect in the hangs. Sadly we still don't even know whether it's hardware or software at it's root, right? It's either bad sectors on the drive, the handling of which is causing Windows internals to completely barf, which really shouldn't happen, or an NTFS filesystem problem which Windows' own disk check failed to find.

Not looking good for Mr. Gates. Updates to follow.

03-21-2006, 04:27 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Moving files from D: to C:, the system got really slow during one set of files, and hung during one particular file. When I returned to explore that folder, the system hung again while I was just browsing the suspect directory. I didn't even open any of the files. Luckily I don't need any of those particular files. I've been able to move just about everything else off of that partition. Sadly there is another 20GB partition to move before the entire disk can be swapped out. But we have a key suspect in the hangs. Sadly we still don't even know whether it's hardware or software at it's root, right? It's either bad sectors on the drive, the handling of which is causing Windows internals to completely barf, which really shouldn't happen, or an NTFS filesystem problem which Windows' own disk check failed to find. Not looking good for Mr. Gates. Updates to follow.

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