A bad sector problem is going build and build and build until it just "implodes". That many bad sectors is certainly a sign of impending doom and you should have replaced it when you first saw the bad sectors. Reformat. You're wasting your time until you do that. That MIGHT map out the bad sectors and mark them unusable for a new OS install. You should use your 250gb HD as the main OS drive and partition it (C: Windows, D: Program Files, E: Storage) and that would save you the $ for a new HD (unless it's still under warranty). It is however best to have two HD's in case your main one fails you have all your saved data/storage on a separate drive.
Sure, the larger the HD the longer it's going to take to run ANY kind of scan. I'm not sure now which HD you're scanning. If your 250gb is only for storage, you don't really need to scan it for malware. 250gb+ drives ARE certainly necessary if one is dealing with digital video. DV files however can be pretty small depending on which compression and formats one is using. With my ATI AIW, a 10 second piece of video can be anywhere from way less than 1mb to over 30mb depending on the format--and that's just the formats I've experimented with. There's several dozen options. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In a message dated 9/5/2004 3:04:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, orpheuscomputing.com writes: > You're wasting your time (and it would seem maybe ours as well now ;-). > You > need to replace that HD or at LEAST start all over again with a reformat > with > all those HD issues. You never mentioned you had so many HD problems. You > can't expect a HD to operate properly with that many bad sectors. That's > what's taking so long to scan and why it's so slow--too many bad sectors. Reformatting is my next step, if not also getting a new HD. I've had that many bad sectors for about a year now. Why is it just now starting to run so torturously slow on the scans? I've been doing anti-spy almost every day since I got it (about a month or two ago) and nothing was wrong with it until this past weekend. SOMETHING has to be infecting the HD. I don't see how it could be anything else. My techie says it's because I'm using the hard drives for storage and that NOTHING (he wrote in huge letters) should be stored on the HD except the start up and application stuff, or something like that. He also says that it's because I have a 250 gig D drive when I don't need it. If a 250 gig drive is not needed, why do they make them? I told him months ago that I was going to use it to do video projects. I tried to do one on my 40 gig and it used up nearly every bit of space I had left (about half of the drive) just to hold the first 15 minutes of a video. There's no way in hell that I'm going to be able to save an hours worth of video, let alone a full 4 hours, on a 40 gig drive, or even a DVD. > > You run scandisk in DOS by hitting the F5 or F8 repeatedly while booting > (can't recall which), then I think you hit [shift-F5] at the menu to get to > the command prompt. It will say at the bottom of the screen if it's > [shift-F5]. Then at the C: prompt type scandisk. But, I doubt now that's > going to help much. Depending on how much data Vs. free space you have on > the drive, it MIGHT be able to map out the bad sectors and avoid them, but > you're better off getting a new HD. It's F8, but I don't think I can go there. Seems to me I tried it months ago when it first started not letting me go to safe mode, so I've just never bothered since then. Dale ============= 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 =====================================================
