I just recently had a new hard drive installed on my computer. It was cloned from my old drive which had bad sectors on it. Would this cause it to not be able to scan disk or defragment??? I was having the same problem with the old drive.

You may need to disable your anti-virus software and screensave while you defrag, otherwise the computer will sense activity and cannot properly defrag. Good luck.

I've actually seen drives imaged using drive image pro copy the bad clusters right to the new drive. You need to run a thorough scandisk and let it take forever and mark those clusters. Then it won't take as long to defrag and stuff. If at all possible you might want to try partitioning your hard drive and hand copying your data to another partition then format the partition with the bad clusters then move your data back.
Hope this helps

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Tim Jones MCSE

I don't think actual bad sector info could be transferred to a new drive? Exactly how was it cloned? I know that just "mirroring" the data from an old drive could NOT affect the performance of Scandisk or Defrag.
You should always run Scandisk from a DOS prompt. From START/SHUTDOWN choose RESTART IN DOS MODE. At the C: prompt type SCANDISK and when prompted choose SURFACE/THOROUGH scan.
For Defrag you want to close all your background apps. Go to START/RUN and type MSCONFIG. On the STARTUP tab uncheck everything and reboot. This will give you a clean boot to run Defrag. You can go back and re-check whatever STARTUP apps you want. You can also boot into SAFE MODE to run Defrag - keep tapping F8 while pc boots, and choose SAFE MODE from the boot menu.
Good luck,
Don
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