what is this error: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR3 during a paging operation.

i ran some HP diagnostic tests, that I believe the system passed. There was one that was a virtual memory test, and another one. I see that there is a possibility that it did not test both hard drives. the third party software would have tested the external drive.

I could double check the hard drive diagnostic tests with the HP diagnostics. I keep thinking there is an issue caused by windows updates, since what i have seen is that in the past, a search issue appeared, then basically stopped, Then it reappeared when I had the external drive attached. By all of the information provided, It could have happened due to trying to use some windows setting while searching. The page file is for not making windows overwork itself (or something like that).

So I may need to double check with a diagnostic on the hard drives. i can run a processor test since that will test the temperature, but it seems like the main test for the hard drives could be the long and short tests.

It seems logical that an internal drive could be wearing down, but something like a windows update caused a conflict with the external drive by the explanation that you provided.

Earlier in the thread running HP UEFI and Windows hardware diagnostics were not performed.

Running Crystal disk info was not performed.

Running Windows Driver Verifier (WDV) to troubleshoot BSOD was not performed.

This is an open forum.

There may be other members that can provide help.

Sorry, but it seems to me that what you really want to do here is make posts. I won't stand in your way.

Earlier in the thread running HP UEFI and Windows hardware diagnostics were not performed.

Running Crystal disk info was not performed.

Running Windows Driver Verifier (WDV) to troubleshoot BSOD was not performed.

This is an open forum.

There may be other members that can provide help.

i did run HP diagnostics, but i forgot to post the results. I ran them from the HP windows diagnostics on 7/26 and they passed. However, there were not long drive tests performed. There was short drive tests and UEFI memory tests, and they passed.

I did not perform the other tests yet. I did want to ask other questions like if crystal disk does anything else, about checking the previous memory dump file, and about the possibility of WDV somehow disabling reinstalling drivers. I do think something happened with a system before that I uninstalled a driver, and I was not able to reinstall a driver easily. I do not know how I reinstalled it. It is possible that i had a windows disc or factory installation disc to get a driver. It seems probable that it is not specific that the hard drives are not messed up, but i see from one of the third party software tests, that a hard drive is not 100% healthy. I think it is solid state, and that seems problematic if the solid state drive is possibly getting worse when what is writing the most is windows updates.

whichever drive is doing that (which some test seemed to say it was the solid state drive), it is likely windows updates, it shouldn't be that a drive that is not very old is 97-98% healthy after only a few months of use.

It is likely that some test that would remove possible incompatible drivers could help, but any software bugs may not be resolved.

I would like to know about this possibility of WDV removing drivers and possibly not being able to installing them. I think that you said the commands will allow it to boot into windows. I wonder also if somehow if some drivers are removed, if that might also be a problem? It shouldn't, but I don't know what kind of drivers might be a problem.

i saw in some windows updates on my previous system, that the hardware started failing with updates. Things like the keyboard and touchpad stopped working. They could not be updated. Then the bios had conflicts, and i found two different drivers from the same month, and i would keep downloading the update to try to make something work again. It seemed to cause an error constantly, and downloading the BIOS update frequently would temporarily reset the error. this system seems to be a little better.

Sorry, but it seems to me that what you really want to do here is make posts. I won't stand in your way.

i think that you misunderstand me, and probably some other do as well. In the post that I posted yesterday, I had mentioned conflicting drivers on my last system (see the previous post). One was probably a microsoft driver, and the other HP. They both had the same month as the date, but were different manufacturers. I also had some incident I believe that I had uninstalled a driver, and I believe I could not connect to the internet to reinstall it. I am detail-oriented. I also have used multiple computer systems, though I am not a technician, nor an OS programmer. I do know about patches and programming errors due to making some mistakes in programming, and seeing them, and explanations from companies. Programmers tend to try to update the code by adding new code I believe, but it seems like sometimes, there are still errors in the updates that cause conflicts.

My reasoning is that if putting old code to replace the new code with the mistakes added to it, then again adding the codes with the mistakes to update it again, it doesn't provide a permanent solution.

I do not know the ins and outs of repairing computer systems or fixing operating systems.

I have tried to troubleshoot different systems, and also repaired old systems by reinstalling windows before, and that didn't always fix things. I also had hard drives last longer. I can explain a lot about these things and about different software that I used on old systems, but I don't think that is necessary. Since I am not familiar with these other third-party programs, etc, I would like to know more about what I am doing before I install things. Last year, Windows 10 kept updating my last system and messed up my last computer system. Soon after that, the hardware malfunctioned, and other things happened that should not have.

This system is fairly new, and I should not have a possible solid state hard drive getting worse, and also one problem after another with windows 10. My last post shows my concerns that I have kept posting about the third party software, etc. I may have missed something and forgotten something. I do believe something was exported by a file that was requested that i don't know how to post. However, the diagnostics i had forgotten to post the results, but i posted the information in the last post.

I am not sure if explaining all this helps, yet I would like to figure out if there is some guarantee about using WDV will actually not do something like remove internet-related drivers, or something that might interfere with that. I don't know if there are any drivers on my system that windows is having problems with like a display driver or something (just an example), that that software is ran, that something will shut down, and i would not be able to get the new drivers. Then there is the fact that it is always recommended to use an HP driver for each conflicting driver.