Yesterday, due to bad weather, our electricity kept cutting out. My computer got shut down by this several times. I was then converting songs in my itunes library to mp3 when I tried to access my recycle bin from desktop. The usual screen popped up for a second, then the 'error report' box appeared. I sent an error report, but have got no reply. Can anyone help PLEASE!! (Please explain your answers very basically, as I am not a computer whizz!!) THANKS.
2006-08-13 22:10:09 · 6 answers · asked by OLLIE_WOLLIE 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You need to run a disk defragmenter and this ios found in Systems tools menu. Put it plainly you need to click on the start button then select accesories and then system tools and the disk defragmetor.
2006-08-13 22:18:39 · answer #1 · answered by pj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows uses something called Write-Caching to speed up your harddrives. When the power went out the data that it had cached was not written to the harddrive. The empty space where the data was supposed to go is confusing Windows.
What you need to do is run Scandisk to repair the empty space on the harddrive.
First go to My Computer. Then right-click on the C: Drive and select properties. Go to Tools, Click Check Now under Error-Checking. Check the "Automatically fix file system errors" box and the "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" box. Then tell it to scan. If it tells you it needs to restart allow it too.
If it doesn't ask to restart, Restart your computer after it is finished.
If it does reboot it will scan all the parts of your harddrive. This can take up to 1 hour if you have a slow harddrive.
Either way the problem should be corrected.
2006-08-14 07:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, run "ScanDisk" and have it automaticly repair errors.
After that, if it still doesn't work, right-click the "recycle Bin" icon on your desktop and select "Properties". Click the "Global" tab, click "Use one setting for all drives" radio button then move the slider labeled "Maximum size of Recycle Bin (percent of each drive)" somewhere between 10% and 20%. Click "OK" and try again to access your Recycle Bin. As your hard-drive has no more errors and the "Recycle Bin" has been configured, it should work now, but don't expect to recover any lost files before the time you perform those actions.
Good luck!
2006-08-14 05:43:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bogdan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It looks like when your pc crashed some or all of the files in the recycle bin became corrupt, hence the errors.
Download CCleaner - it's free and run it
http://www.ccleaner.com/
In cleaner settings, make sure the Empty Recycle Bin box is marked.
If your recycle bin still doesn't function run the checkdisk utility.
Go to start>run
type
chkdsk
in the box and click ok.
2006-08-14 06:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never run your computer if the electricity keeps cutting out this can do a lot of damage to the hard drive, it will also corrupt a lot of your program.
You need to do a full scan, now & hope.
You live & learn.
2006-08-15 06:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by Sly_Old_Mole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry i can't help
2006-08-14 05:44:45 · answer #6 · answered by green_maths_scout 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋