Man, trash that HD and do not waste any more time on it.
Even if it scandisk is wrong and the bad sectors are 10% of what it tells you,
there is no other cure than the trash can.
The other day I bought a WD HD, 160MB 8MB buffer for just $80 and they'r going
to refund me $30 mail-in rebate. So there is no excuse (well, that was a special offer, but
you can easily find a 80MB HD for less than $70 etc, etc.)
Just a few bad sectors are usually the beginning of the end for a HD.
good luck, Dale
-- and do not use any more floppies as backups, just burn CDs or DVDs or
use another hard drive, or a flash drive (I actually use some flash memory cards
as cheap removable media)
Jorge
At 01:56 a.m. 05/09/2004 -0400, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/4/2004 5:32:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If you're saying that it's taking days to run a scanner, then something is > seriously wrong.
Well, lets put it this way, I haven't shut off my computer in 3.5
days! I normally shut it off when I'm not using it. I can't see wasting all that
electricity for something that's not being used. 3.5 days ago I started my
anti-spyware check. It should only take about 10 to 15 minutes to do
everything it's supposed to do. According to it, I have about 33000 files that it has
to check through. It's now just past 18000. By my calculations, unless it
suddenly picks up a great deal of speed, it should complete this one single
scanning effort around, oh, the 21st or 23rd of Sept.!!!! I may be crazy, and
sometimes I'll go out of my way to prove that I am, but I think one month is a
wee bit rediculous to wait for ANY kind of a system scan to complete it's job,
wouldn't you?
I don't know if you mean it's running in the BG all the time, or this happens when you do > a manual scan and it takes this long to scan your files.
I started the manual scan on the 1st of Sept. at 3:30 p.m.. Normally
it only takes about 15 minutes to run the whole thing. (Now I'M starting to
sound like a broken record, and, being a vinyl junkie, I HATE broken records!!)
If the latter, then you're HD may be screwed up.
Well, when I'm able to run scandisk, which doesn't always run fully and sometimes doesn't even start up, it tells me that there are something like 360,000 bad sectors.
Do a chkdsk or scandisk of each HD > and or partition.
I'd love to! The last few times I tried it would go at least 3/4 of
the way through and then start over again. It just keeps doing this for as
long as I keep it running. Once it even went as far as about 95% of the way and
then started over again!! I have no problems with it at all on the D drive or
even the A drive.
I don't recall how to do this in ME, I think you right click each drive or partition in "My > computer" and then "tools", then you'll see the error > checking button.
Start/programs/accessories/sytem tools/scandisk
If you haven't defrag'd yet then do that as well.
I did that twice this past weekend and usually do it once every sunday
after I get off line. I only did it the second time this weekend, because I
copied about 11 gig of stuff over yto the D drive after I already ran defrag.
On the D I have no problems running defrag, on the C it can be annoying.
First it takes about 10 to 15 just to start up, then, once it get's going, from
about the 3/4 mark onwards, it runs through about a dozen rows of those little
blue cubes on the screen and then it has to start all over again. This can go
on for about an hour.
> Also run scandisk in DOS and let it also do the long version.
I've never done that, nor do I know how.
If that doesn't fix the problem, then I'd seriously recommend you run some HD
b> enchmarks and post the results. Sandra diagnostics, HDtach and AIDA32
> (its HD tests are under "plugins") are all free and you can find them at any
> search engine. It would also be a good idea to run the HD manufacturer's
> diagnostics which you get from their website. You should first of course be sure
> you have no malware on the HD since if you do the results could be tainted.
How can I find that out if I can't run the scans? It's like the old Chico Marx line: How can I find out what I wanna find out if it won't let me find out what I wanna find out?
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