thank you for your reply.

i quite agree that all data is to be removed 
from the failing drive, that has already 
been done. 

the interesting (and annoying) problem is 
that 98se is locking the logical drive on a 
new, known good, disk.

the logical drive on the new disk is unlocked 
in both dos shell and safe modes, but locked 
in normal mode.

using fdisk to delete the locked logical drive
and recreate it, then formatting the new 
logical drive after reboot as i have done, 
would appear to remove any possibility that 
a flag in the partition table, or anywhere on 
the physical disk, is preserved across boot

98se certainly seems to be locking the disk
on boot on the basis of info preserved some
where in its startup files across shutdown.

its going to irk me if i have to restore c: from
an image created before the windows explorer
copy process that started problem.






On Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 2:38 pm, C K wrote:


>If a logical drive is failing, then the hard drive 

> is failing.  Pull all data off of the drive (to another 

> physical drive) and run the manufacturers diag-

> nostics program on the drive.  Totally delete and 

> repartition/restore your C image if the drive tests 

>good, but remember that all failures are not picked 

> up by the diagnostics programs. 

>

> If the drive is developing problems, it will keep 

> having problems and data corruption..

 

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