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bad sectors
Name: Bonnie Date: November 11, 2001 at 10:04:32 Pacific
Comment:
I'm not sure what to do. Bought a Hard Drive for my old 486sx, It had a 400mb in before bought a 850mb having trouble doing scandisk its come up with bad sectors please fix there seem to be quite afew i've scaned to 63% and fix it has come up,is the hard drive no good or can i fix it. i would be very gratful if enybody can help me....thanx
Name: adam Date: November 11, 2001 at 10:30:14 Pacific
Reply:
try running a low-level format to see if that will do it but most likely not. probably just need new drive. once the sectors start going bad its just a matter of time till it goes out. you can most likely download a low-level format program from the manufacture of the drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: Tony Date: November 11, 2001 at 12:06:59 Pacific
Reply:
Run scan disk(thorough)and watch for messages and/or errors,then defrag.If the puter is working ok don't worry about it.
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