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To: Dan Duchardt who wrote (9966)1/17/2000 3:21:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
Dan,

You have my sympathy in your HDD travails. No one knows the troubles I've seen <g>.

From your description it seems that your original C: drive (on the old Maxtor) is the partition that had the bad clusters. Am I right to assume that scandisk didn't find any bad spots on your original D: drive?

And yet C: copied OK over to the WD disk while the copy hung trying to do D:

And the bad clusters on C:, at least in appearance, were preserved in the transfer to the new disk.

Couple of points:

Drive letter assignment in Windows was just discussed on this thread: Message 12569502

So the "interleaving" you saw was really normal and somewhat coincidental since the pattern would have been broken if you had had more than 4 total drives on the two disks.

I find it helpful to put volume labels on each partition. You can do this at the time of formatting (you are prompted for a label at the end of the formatting process) or by using the Properties screen for the drive in Windows (eg. right click on C: in My Computer). I label each partition to indicate what physical disk it's on and something relating to the partition's contents or place on the disk. (This gets a little screwed up if you use Drive Image since the volume label gets transferred with the partition to the new location.)

I don't know if scandisk will fix the bad spots on your new C: drive. I had some bad sectors once which wouldn't go away and I thought I was stuck with them, but after a reformat they went away (or was it a re-partition AND a reformat?). Of course you want to preserve your C: partition which may be like having your cake. Guess it depends how hungry you are. (Or maybe if you copied C: to a CD and then back to the HDD you would lose the "bad sectors" since the CDROM uses a different file system?) Or maybe someone else has another idea.

The unpredictable booting problems:

I just bought a new Maxtor HDD. It came with one jumper but the instructions showed you needed two jumpers to designate the drive as master, slave or cable-select.

I called Maxtor and they told me that depending on the age of your bios you can possibly configure with one jumper. I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem but you might want to give them a call.

wily
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