I am currently using a computer with a Windows 2003 Server Operating System. It took me about 15 minutes to get to the login screen. When I was finally able to log into my profile, I checked the Event Viewer and saw the following error:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0, has a bad block.
I was able to fix this doing the following:
- Do a right click on your C: drive.
- Select properties
- Click on the Tools tab, in the Error-Checking section click the “Check Now” button.
- Select all the Check disc options and press start.
After I did all this I got the following message: “The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed only by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?” press “Yes” and the next time you restart your computer a CHKDSK (Checkdisk) is going to be performed. This fixed my problem.
If you have another way of fixing this problem, please let me know.