Errors and Scandisk, need advice
Chris
Can you advise me on this problem?
From today my computer says that there are errors on my HD and that I should
run Scandisk.
The drive is only a few months old.
When I ran scandisk everything was ok until it started picking up bad
clusters.
In total it took 5 hours to run, and I had to stop it at 88%.
At this stage 130 bad clusters had been found, the last few % of the above
figure took hours to read.
It took ages to read a single cluster and when it did it was bad.
From looking at the info it seems that it is the end bit of the HD where
there are problems.
From the log it says ;
Cluster 1,654,775 is timing out, and will soon fail.
There is no file using cluster 1,654,775.
Scandisk did not patch the cluster.
That is just a single example.
Could you say what I should do?
What is the problem?
Can I resume scandisk from where I left it
Only thing new to my computer is a cable modem and the software zone alarm
Thanks.
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Chris S
xattica
Install Linux.
Chris
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Chris S
"xattica" <c...@x21.org> wrote in message
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Tony Kelly
wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Can you advise me on this problem?
>
>From today my computer says that there are errors on my HD and that I should
>run Scandisk.
>The drive is only a few months old.
It's presumably under warranty so take it/ send it back and get a
replacement.
guess
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:05:59 GMT, "Chris" <c.sh...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Thor
bad harddrive. Damn, that must be some amazing OS. ;-)
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"xattica" <c...@x21.org> wrote in message
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Plato
>
> I've heard Linux fans make a lot of amzing claims, but never that it could fix a
> bad harddrive. Damn, that must be some amazing OS. ;-)
Hell. Linux even fixes my flats on my car. Where have you been 'ol sod?
Thor
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Bass Masterson
"guess" <I_hate_spam...@leder.com> wrote in message
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Martyn Harrison
wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Can you advise me on this problem?
>
>From today my computer says that there are errors on my HD and that I should
>run Scandisk.
>The drive is only a few months old.
This is handy because the drive has a problem - it is therefore
probably under warranty.
From your description, there is nothing wrong with your computer
except that the hard disk has a physical problem. What is happening is
that all works just fine until you issue a command to read/write to a
specific part of the physical hard disk, and the head bumps up and
down on the damaged surface.
As a test, you could try repeatedly running scandisk and you would
then find that the area where the magnetic surface has come off the
platter get gradually bigger and bigger. Each time windows tries to
recover a bad cluster, it makes the problem a little worse.
If you can't replace it under warranty, there's someone looking for
the electronic part of a specific hard disk in this echo, they've got
what seems to be a perfectly good disk with a fried controller board.
Yours is in reverse, there's nothing wrong with the electrics but the
platter inside has become damaged.
Michael-NC
likely toast. I'd check the cable first though.
"Chris" <c.sh...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> Can you advise me on this problem?
>
> From today my computer says that there are errors on my HD and that I should
> run Scandisk.
> The drive is only a few months old.
>