re: Getting messages about possible bad sectors, and fragmented drive, and scandisk, defrag, and Norton all freeze up
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 11:18 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michelle
(12 messages posted)
Keith,
Thank you for your input. I have since fixed whatever was wrong with my computer.
As I am no computer technician I have no idea for sure what caused it, but it has
since been fixed by formatting my drive. I had tried several suggestions posted
by other users, and when that didn't work I just decided to basically do a system
restore, and restored my hardrive back to the way it was when I got it, and reinstalled
all my programs. Since then I have had no problems, and have made a back up disk
should it ever happen again :-) Thanks again.
Michelle
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 6:44 am, Keith Billard wrote:
>Sorry to tell you this, but any technican knows if your getting bad clusters and
>your system is locking up. Its becuase of a bad sector your computer is trying
to
>read. That is what is causing it to lock up.
>Try formatting the drive and see if it says trying to recover lost allocation units.
> If it does it means your drive is shot.
>Find out who makes the drive, and find out about warranty. The manufacturer may
>even replace the drive for you.
>
>Keith.
>Dipl. ISS, A+
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