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| Thread ID: 11343 | 2001-09-13 10:37:00 | Bad 'Clusters' on HDD | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 18751 | 2001-09-13 10:37:00 | While running Windows ScanDisk -47% into scan the process became hung up and after minutes of repetitive clicking, frozen screen etc I suffered the blue screen syndome. Restarting in Safe Mode I ran a DiskCleanup, complete ScanDisk then Defrag and have found bad 'clusters' around the 47% mark. My queries are; What are they\how are they created? Can I fix them? Would running scan/defrag in normal mode still throw me out 47% of the way in scan? My system: Acer Veriton 5100, Pent.II 700Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 20 Gb QuantumFireball HDD, Win 98SE OS Cheers again Des TK |
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| 18752 | 2001-09-13 12:32:00 | Try running it from dos by hitting F8 just before the win98 splash screen, and choosing command prompt only (or insert a boot disk). Then type: SCANDISK C: /AUTOFIX The bad clusters are parts of the disk that have been corrupted. They are usually caused by not shuting down correctly, eg after a crash, power failure etc. It may take a bit of time to fix them, so give it a while. |
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| 18753 | 2001-09-14 01:18:00 | b m My thanks again, I will use it after this net session 8-) Cheers Des TK |
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