On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:24:25 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Bastiaan,
> That is strange. I just did a Google search on "repairing clusters" and came
> up with only one hit.
> A couple of questions:
> Did you do a low level format on this HD?
No
> Does your HD have a "write protect" jumper?
No
> Did you run ATTRIB.EXE on your new partition?
No
> Have you run any HD diagnostic program (including CHKDSK or SCANDISK)?
Yes, no problems
> Is your CMOS set up to permit writing to the HD?
Yes
> Is the partition a FAT 16 partition?
Yes
> A 467MB HD should contain about 60,000 clusters. (8K clusters)
Yes, I discovered that... shortening the time to abt. 10 hours.
IIRC this HD comes from a discarded computer that has been virus attacked
once.
The first part of the HD (43%) is running OK with Win95 installed.
The second part has only a few 100k that can be used.
Format tried 2 times to repair the clusters, but :-((
There might be some truth in the saying that some virusses CAN destroy a
HD :-((
> Good Luck!
Thanks, I will need that a 6Gb disk is waiting with trouble also.
Regards, Bastiaan
> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona
> Bastiaan wrote:
> .. > Hi Glenn,
> .. > Yes, a few minutes was what I expected for the formatting of 467Mb.
> .. > But I never saw 'FORMAT' saying that is was going to repair the clusters
> .. > first... not stating what was actually going to be repared and not how
> .. > long that would take.
> .. > Perhaps this has something to do with: "write protect error writing
> .. > fixed disk" as stated by FDISK when I made the partition.
> .. > Did repairing the clusters meant 'removing the write protection'?
> .. > I wonder.
> .. > Anyway I started the formatting and 7.5 hours later 47,000 clusters
> .. > were repaired and I went to bed.
> .. > This morning the partition was ready and formatted. So after all it did
> .. > not take 6 days but between 7.5 and 16 hours.
> .. > ***************************** A few hours later...
> .. > I tried to use the formatted partition and could write just aprox 1Mb to
> .. > the new partition... disk full, 0 bites left :-((
> .. > The command "FORMAT E: /s" was given and format is repairing the
> .. > clusters again. I hope the computer is ready in the morning... now I am
> .. > going to bed.
> .. > I do not realy need this harddisk but this is intruiging, isn't it?
> .. > **************************************************
> .. > Am I right that 467Mb contains aprox. 911.250 clusters? So we have to
> .. > conclude that not all the clusters have to be repaired...
> .. > I still have to format a 6Gb HD... 72 days??
> .. > Regards, Bastiaan
> .. > BTW: computer is a pentium II @ 400MHz.
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