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Dirty Volumes?

October 22nd, 2007 by Babs

My computer is programed to go into hibernation if it’s not being used for more than 30 minutes. It did so while I was busy doing something else, but when I returned all I could get was a black screen. I turned off the computer, then turned it back on. I got a restart error message. I tried to continue with the restart only to have the computer perform a memory dump. After the third attempt I let it dump the information it had saved as it went into hibernation. This time it ran a checkdisk. What does it mean when it says a volume is dirty?

It seems to have rebooted okay. I’m currently running an anti-virus scan, just in case there was anything it missed anything, but I’m terrified to turn it off for the night.

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herbmcsidhe writes:
October 23rd, 20075:56 amat

It means there may be disk or file corruption:
read more about it

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- Babs writes:
  October 23rd, 20073:22 pmat
  
  Thanks!
  
  I hate venturing over into Microsoft help. Spend hours searching for an answer only to be told they don’t have any information on the problem. 😛
  
  Based on the page you supplied, and a few others I stumbled upon, it looks like XP didn’t go into hibernation properly. Whether things were already corrupted at the time or by me when I forced the shutdowns in an attempt to cold boot, I don’t know. Chkdisk seems to have fixed it so that it’s booting up okay, now. I have to check if it will hibernate again without issues.
  
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