On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:24:37 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Bastiaan,
> A couple of more questions.
> What is the total size of your HD?
814Mb
> Are you booting from a floppy?
No, with boot manager from C:\ = first part of this HD = HD #1
> If so, what OS is your floppy set up for?
DOS on floppy but it makes no difference where I am booting from.
> Is your Windoze partition set up for FAT16 or FAT32?
FAT16
> Are you using a multi-OS boot program to select the partition you wish to
> boot to?
YES
> 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
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