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| 29102 | 2001-12-30 02:24:00 | The local school has a computer with a Cyric 200mhz cpu, 32mb RAM, 2 gb HHD which is about half full and Win95 o/s. Everything seems OK except when I've tried to run defrag and both the Windows and DOS scandisk surface scan. All operations cease to function after about 26%, on I think the 135107 sector. The computer has to be switched-off to get it to go again, resetting it doesn't work. I've tried reinstalling Win95 and running scandisk from a floppy and the cd without success. I've run them with and without Norton Antivirus installed. So I conclude it must be the hard drive. Any suggestions? The hard drive already has a couple of bad sectors in the first 26%. The only thing I can think of is to do a format and reinstall everything? Nigel |
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| 29103 | 2001-12-30 02:32:00 | Hi Nigel, download Powerdefrag (url @ Google) and you should have no problems . Run the scandisk thingee first. It is a very good, free program, and will zip thru your PC in no time. Make sure that you have no programs running in the background when you use it though Regards, RINGO |
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| 29104 | 2001-12-30 03:56:00 | Just a thought... have you tried scandisk and defrag in safe mode? Don't know if it will work any better but it may be worth a try. | Guest (0) | ||
| 29105 | 2001-12-30 05:07:00 | make sure everything is closed, everything in your taskbar, and press ctrl+alt+del to end everything EXCEPT explorer and systray. virus scanner will have to be disabled too u may have already done this seeing as u get to 26% but ill just state the obvious regards |
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| 29106 | 2001-12-30 10:15:00 | Reboot your PC to start in DOS mode. Once in that mode, type in the word scandiskc. Scandisk will run comfortably in DOS without halting as it sometimes does in WinX. Once you have rebooted into windows, the run defrag. |
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| 29107 | 2001-12-30 20:56:00 | Nigel, I don't think some of the other's who replied actually read your whole message. I'd agree with you, there's likely something wrong with your hard drive. You could try reformating and reinstalling windows, but if you've got other bad sectors in it, the drive could just be giving up, and you could end up with even more problems. Sometimes a low-level format can clear away bad-sectors for a time, but this can cause even bigger problems later, if Windows installs some files onto areas that had previously been bad sectors - if they become bad sectors again, then you might not be able to get into your drive at all. Working with school computers a lot, I've found that over time, through regular moving of computers, and bumping etc. the drives tend to get bad sectors quite often, and its just a part of life. The best option (but comes down to cash, as usual) is to buy a new drive. I hope this all makes sense to you (I'm still half asleep). Mike. |
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| 29108 | 2001-12-31 02:46:00 | Can you try the old DOS chkdsk programme? A messy school disk could have lots of clusters which have 'disappeared'. It could be too much for scandisk to handle. Just delete all the *.CHK files which will appear in C:\, then try again. | Guest (0) | ||
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