Bastiaan, A couple of more questions.
What is the total size of your HD? Are you booting from a floppy? If so, what OS is your floppy set up for? Is your Windoze partition set up for FAT16 or FAT32? Are you using a multi-OS boot program to select the partition you wish to boot to? I believe that there is a freeware HD diagnostic program available, Htest/Hformat that has had good reviews. Also, Scott Mueller's, "Upgrading and Repairing PCs," Tenth Edition, has two CD's that contains various freeware, demo, shareware diagnostic programs, one of which is, "Check-It 5.0," "Hardware and system diagnostic software." HTH Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Bastiaan wrote: . > 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
