what is multilevel degenerative disk disease and what can become of it and how can i help it and prevent it?
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I have it, I had seven surgeries on my lower spine and my cervical spine. Mine is related to degenerative osteoarthritis in a severe form. It started when I was 48 yrs. old. I'm now 67 and will be in a wheel chair in a few years. It's now, the arthritis, in my hands, I'll have stiff hands from surgery by this time next year.\n\n   There is no hope or even control for my disease, only more surgery and drug control for the extreme pain, the nights are the worse.\n\n   If your young, see your doctor, they have some preventive means now for certain population groups. Maybe you can still get help. My cardiac surgeon is the best, probably the form-most in the Midwest and can't use his hands anymore. That's life, good luck and God Bless.  It took me as long to write this as it would have a long letter, that's what I mean.
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Introduction\nIt's essential that an operating system be able to maintain your disks at peak levels of reliability and performance. The Windows® 2000 operating system does this through a built-in system tool called Disk Defragmenter. Disk Defragmenter was developed through a collaborative effort between Microsoft Corporation and Executive Software International. Read on to learn more about disk fragmentation and defragmentation, and how Disk Defragmenter supports the maintenance of disk efficiency.\n\nTop of page\nTypes of Fragmentation\nFragmentation is caused by creating and deleting files and folders, installing new software, and downloading files from the Internet. Computers do not necessarily save an entire file or folder in a single space on a disk; they're saved in the first available space. After a large portion of a disk has been used, most of the subsequent files and folders are saved in pieces across the volume. (In this discussion the terms disk and volume are used interchangeably.) When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind are filled in randomly as you store new ones. This is how fragmentation occurs. The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file input and output performance will be. There are two main types of disk fragmentation: file fragmentation and free space fragmentation.\n\nFile Fragmentation\nA file with all its parts stored in one location on a disk is described as "contiguous." If a file is not contiguous, it's fragmented; broken into pieces that are scattered throughout the disk. All Windows NT® and Windows 2000 file types—File Allocation Table (FAT) and NTFS file system (NTFS)—are susceptible to fragmentation.\n\nFile fragmentation has a negative effect on disk performance because the disk head requires more time to move around to different points on the disk to read scattered file parts. This is a primary reason for the gradual degradation of system performance—and the specific cause of longer reads and extended reboots.\n\nFree Space Fragmentation\nA partially full disk contains unused space, known as free space. Ideally, this space would be available in a few contiguous portions of the disk. And while it's good to have free space, it's not good if it's fragmented. Free space fragmentation refers to file space that's broken into small pieces, rather than joined together. This type of fragmentation results in slowed performance because of the time it takes for the disk head to move to different points on the disk to find free space and then write the file. Fragmented free space also increases the possibility of file fragmentation; when a file is larger than the space it's being written to, the file fragments.\n\nTop of page\nAnalyzing Defragmentation\nDefragmentation is the process of rewriting non-contiguous parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a disk for the purpose of increasing data access and retrieval speeds. Because FAT and NTFS disks can deteriorate and become badly fragmented over time, defragmentation is vital for optimal system performance.\n\nFragmentation Analysis Study\nHow fragmented can a system get? In June 1999 the American Business Research Corporation of Irvine, California performed a fragmentation analysis and found that, out of 100 corporate offices that were not using a defragmenter, 50 percent of the respondents had server files with 2,000 to 10,000 fragments—and another 33 percent had files that were fragmented into 10,333 to 95,000 pieces. In all cases the results were the same: Servers and workstations experienced a significant degradation in performance.\n\nGood Housekeeping\nEven a new computer system will experience disk fragmentation because loading the operating system results in both file and free space fragmentation. You can test this by loading the operating system onto a new machine, and then run the analysis function of Disk Defragmenter (explained below).\n\nFor t
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How about some stretching or strength exercises.  Those are the most important.  How about building up the bone mass to prevent it.  Old folks, like me, have to get off their a** and get moving.  It really does make a difference.  Prevention is the cure.
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do a complete format,    I have never had success with the fix it,, but also it wont clean up your disk, do the complete format,
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The gradual degeneration of bones.  It is mainly associated with decreased levels of estrogen in women, old age, decreased calcium and vitamin D intake and a lack of weight bearing exercise. It can happen to men but usually affects post menopausal women.
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It is when the density of your bone degenerates.  Added calcium (Tums is a good calcium supplement) will help to prevent further degeneration.
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Probably means you hard drive is having problems and getting ready to die. Time to backup your data.
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You should find a good chiropractor. If it is a problem with a disk you may not be able to do anything except going through surgury. Surgury is usually extremely painful so you have to weigh your options and decide if it is really worth it.
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A disk ruptures from regular old wear and tear of living. All disks are flattened slightly, and it does not take any extra force to rupture one.\n\nI have had two herniated disks.
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there is currently no proven treatment to stop or slow the progression of osteoarthritis in the spine.\nSorry. We have very powerful drugs to ease the pain.
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I wouldn't even worry about it. The stuff on those disks is superfluous at best, borderline malwear at worst. It's all completely unnecessary, and frankly, you're better off without it on your pc, for the space it frees up if nothing else.
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I wouldn't recommend taking Prednisone for a long time.\nYou gain weight and your skin becomes more fragile.\nHerniated disc is a general term for back pain with a specific cause.\nHNP herniated nucleus pulposus is the condition when the jelly-like center of your disc is squeezed out like toothpaste into the spinal canal putting pressure on your nerves. A slipped disc is the entire disc sliding out from between vertebrae putting pressure on your nerves. Both are managed with physical therapy at the onset. If it worsens, surgery is indicated. It never heals, you only get used to the pain, less and less, everyday.\nPhysical therapy is designed to make your back stronger so the weight on your spine doesn't make matters worse.
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There are many reasons for back pain.  Of those, degenerative change is the most common.  You have two types of joints in your back/spine.  One is the disk, which is positioned between each vertebral body.  The disk can degenerate, causing pain, or can herniate.  If it herniates, it can push on a nerve which can be very painful.  If this is the case, the pain will typically radiate down the distribution of the nerve (eg:  down the leg to your toes.)    The other type of joint is the facet joint.  This type of joint has cartilage within it.  As this joint degenerates, cartilage is lost and degenerative spurs form.  This alone can hurt.  The spurs can also press on nerves leading to pain.  Doctors really can't do anything much to prevent or reverse cartilage loss.  Taking glucosamine supplements may somewhat retard cartilage loss, but once  it's gone...it's gone.  If your pain is secondary to a herniated disk or spurs, surgery can be curative.  If your pain is from the degeneration (aka  osteoarthritis), no good options exist.  You can try taking Motrin.  Doctors can also inject steroids around the nerve roots and within the facet joints.  Results vary....some patients have great pain relief, others none at all.  Other causes of back pain may include fractures, muscle spasm and cancer.  If your doctor thinks your back pain may be secondary to a disc herniation (or cancer), an MRI would likely be useful.
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Either the disk is damaged or the drive is dirty or damaged.\n\nIf the disk is the problem, run  CheckDisk on it.  \n\nStart-->Run\n\nin the Run box, type CHKDSK A:  then press Enter.\n\nIf that doesn't work, the disk cannot be repaired, or the trouble is with the drive.
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You don't "get rid of it" you fix whatever is causing it. THe BSoD is a symptom, not a cause. Considering that you say  your c drive is  not registering, I'd say your problem is that your hard drive crashed. You'll likely need a new one, and a copy of an operating system to install on it. Once you have that you can worry about recovering the data from your failed drive.
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Don't fool yourself....you're talking about being pain free with herniated discs. No way is that a possibility.\nBack and/or neck surgery is a tricky option.  It could correct it for a while or it could make it worse.  You mentioned that you have a degenerative problem.  Well, there you go.  This is a widespread problem in your body.  One surgery is not going to cure or heal it.  It will most likely come back and as you age it will get worse.\nI know quite a few people that had the operation you are talking about and after a couple of years they were right back where they started.  If you can, hold off for as long as you can with the surgery.  Research other options and try other avenues of pain relief.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful