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To: Shoot1st who wrote (17251)3/5/2001 2:10:37 PM
From: tanstfl  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110652
 
Shootie,
At this point I would power off ASAP. The HD controller is glitched, but might be cured by a power off at least temporarily. Unfortunately, in trying to recover lost clusters in this state it is probably corrupting data by relocating some bad reads. It might be cured on power on, but back up and replace the drive these things almost always come back. (Unless, of course, the CMOS got bad drive parameters when you changed the battery. Either because manual parameters had been entered that did not match what the CMOS would read automatically, or if a software program had modified the CMOS for an unsupported disk size install and the battery change lost them. In which case the data is probably trashed but the disk is fine).

Good luck,
Steve



To: Shoot1st who wrote (17251)3/5/2001 3:13:50 PM
From: bosquedog  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110652
 
Shootie, found this item for you to consider:

Note: Do NOT run scan disk until you have checked for
viruses! Some viruses make your computer think files are damaged when they are not. Trying to repair these undamaged files can actually damage them.

Do you have virus software on your computer?


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