Have you tried booting to DOS and doing the scandisk from there. Be sure to do the surface scan as well. You may be able to lock out this sector so that when you are in windows, you should be able to get past that point.
Keith Thompson Ted Mozer wrote: > > I was just trying to trouble shoot a friend's Dell PIII 800, which is less > than a year old. When Scandisk or Norton Disk Doctor 2001 reaches 28% in > diagnosing the hard drive (a ST330630A) the whole systems locks up. I would > guess it is a bad sector on the drive, but why a lockup?? Any suggestions? -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson I Didn't Climb to the Top of the Food Chain to Be a Vegetarian ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
