Bad clusters

[Miguel]

Hello,
Somehow my HDD got bad clusters, so I reformatted it. But this did not take care of the problem. Now when I turn on the PC I got a message asking me to press F1 and suggesting to back up all my files and to get a new HDD. I don't know what is going on. I did not drop the HDD or anything like that.
Can you please help me.

[This message has been edited by Miguel (edited 05-24-2001).]

[Randy_tx]

There can be a good number of reasons a hard drive has bad clusters: age, electrical spike[like lightning] and poor workmanship are the most common I know of. If your drive has a good number of bad clusters, there is a VERY good chance it is about to completely FAIL . You might as well bite the bullet and get a new hard drive if you are encountering as many problems as your post suggests. Whether you can move the data or not depends on whether you can even ACCESS it any longer. The best way I know of to determine if cluster damage is on the increase (which is a surefire way to know it's going out) is to run "Thorough" Scandisk on it about every two to three days to see if more bad clusters are found.

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[jmatt]

http://www.topqualityfreeware.com/dfu.shtml

IDiag .

Inspector Diagnostics provides a physical test suite to insure that
Hard Disk Drives are operating error free. In addition, the fix
errors feature will correct bad sectors if they are detected,
returning the Hard Disk Drive to new factory condition.

[fishybawb]

*Correct* bad sectors? Sounds a little dodgy to me...



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[tjaymadison]

Welcome, Miguel! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

You could that diagnostic program, but it may only give you a short-term solution.

By "correct" it probably means isolate and lock out the clusters, so they aren't used.


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