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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12778)	9/30/2001 12:52:39 PM
From: Dave Bissett	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

Hard Disk help anyone....my hd crashed again today and Norton won't recover it this time so I need some advice about how to proceed. Same problem as a few weeks ago...several sectors have become unreadable on the partition holding Windows. Norton indicates problems while trying to read directory structure and then while trying to move/repair information to safe sectors a message screen starts flashing endlessly when it gets stuck. Surface scan found about 4 bad sectors in addition to several it identified a few weeks ago. Anyway, since Norton won't fix it this time what's the best option to pursue next? Would reformatting possibly overcome this now recurring problem, or should I get a new HD (this one is not old, but possibly bad?). And if reforatting might be the answer, should I wipe the HD clean or would it do any good to use Partition Magic and try to save the info that's on this HD? Or would simply reloading Windows without reformatting do any good? Thanks to anyone for info about best approach here. dave