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To: White Shoes who wrote (3981)12/8/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Bad Sectors

I would run a complete scandisc and set the scan to mark the bad sectors (not the abbreviated scan used to look for just fragmented files). I can not walk you through the prompts as I have not used it that much. It may find some fragmented files and ask you if you want to fix them. I say yes to the fix but usually answer no to saving the fragments. It is not worth the effort unless you have a file that you want to try and save.

This may fix the problem. If not you may want to isolate a bad section of the harddrive. Partition Magic may help here. You can partition and then move partitions thus avoiding any bad areas of the drive. Before playing you should back up with something like Drive Image. Drive Image will look for bad sectors in the back up process if you select that option. If it finds them I do not know what options it will give you.

I would do a selective file back up of any important files before formatting, partitioning and backing up with the above products. The bad sector could cause a problem.

With Partition Magic you can resize your primary partition and then reformat the resulting free space. What you do from there will depend on what types of problems you encounter along the way.

If the bad sector resulted in the loss of some necessary files you may have to reinstall Windows.

Zeuspaul

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The posters on the Blue Planet harddrive forum are better qualified to answer this. blue-planet.com There is a question with a similar problem posted today..

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: After I wrote zeros to my hard drive, recreated my partitions, and reformatted, I ran scandisk
from a windows 95 startup disk. After the surface scan was complete scandisk didn't find a
single bad cluster, so I went to install windows 98. I began installing it and it crashed in the
middle of the setup displaying a message "can not read from hard disk". This brought up
windows 98 version of scandisk. Scandisk fouund 1 bad cluster. Why didn't the Windows 95
version pick up the bad cluster? How do I get rid of my bad cluster? This cluster problem is
getting kind of old. Its time to move onto bigger and better things. THANX
: : -MIKE-

: Mike -

: Yeah, it is getting old fast. When you run Win98
: SCANDISK, do you allow it to mark the cluster as
: bad? That SHOULD lock it out so the cluster doesn't
: get used.

: Technocat

Mike -

One more idea. I read in one of your previous posts
that you could install Win98, but only using FAT16.
Why don't you install it that way, and then run
Partition Magic v.4.0 to convert it to FAT32?

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