I recommend CCleaner, but if one has a corrupted registry (missing bits) I'm not sure what CCleaner could do. Great tool for taking out old or orphaned entries though.

Hi,

I have done another Dell Diagnostics and it is reporting the same errors :

' Error Code 0F00 : 0244

Msg Block 6158289 , 289, 290, 293, 294, 295 , 296, 300, 302 etc: Unrecoverable data error or media is write protected '

Also Errors

0F 0001A44

on various Msg Blocks.

The computer manages to start and seems to be working fine at the moment.

When I had done the hard disk check ' from My Computer ' it had reported clean Drive C.



Thanks

JM

Pull a backup of files (a copy, not a MS backup) as quick as the system allows. Hintity hint.

It does sound as if the drive is on its way out. Not positive, but better to safe than sorry.

Hi Camieabz,

I managed to transfer a copy of my files to another computer the first time I had the Stop notice. Just need to back up few new files.

Thanks

JM

Had the same problem.....i had enough parts in another machine of the same type for me to eventually figure out the problem after trying all the software solutions given on the web..change the memory and if that doesn't work.....change the hard drive. However between the two, it is more likely that the hard drive is faulty.

The GX270/280's were notorious for bad capacitors. This threw up all sorts of odd symptoms including apparent HDD failure.