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Losing Files and FAT errors...tired of r
Name: Greg Date: August 3, 2001 at 04:34:39 Pacific
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I have reformatted my hard drive three separate times and I keep getting FAT errors running scandisk. Why is this happening? I'm getting frustrated. I read somewhere that reformatting does not necessarily block bad sectors from being written on. Is this happening? If so, what do I do? For example, this last time I lost my cursors in Windows/cursors and my Windows/temp file had a copy of cookies and temp interfiles in it for some reason. Plus, my file folder C:\Greg disappeared last time I turned on my machine. When I run scandisk it gets FAT errors and won't process anymore. How do I fix my machine so that I stop losing files, getting corrupted files, FAT errors, scandisk will run forever (instead of just three days), etc. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks. G (-:
Name: Eric Date: August 3, 2001 at 04:40:59 Pacific
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What are your system specs? What type of hard drive, processor, memory, etc etc.
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Name: Greg Date: August 3, 2001 at 04:42:50 Pacific
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dell 866 mhz 60 gig maxtor hdd 128ram windows me
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Response Number 3
Name: Eric Date: August 3, 2001 at 04:51:13 Pacific
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Is your bios set to autodetect your drive? Are you fdisking with large drive support (drive should be fat32)? If that is all ok, it sure sounds like a bad drive. Does format find any bad sectors? If so, replace the drive immediately.
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Response Number 4
Name: Greg Date: August 3, 2001 at 05:07:02 Pacific
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what about a virus somewhere on the computer or a floppy? G (-: dell tech said may be a virus somewhere
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Response Number 5
Name: Annika Amethyst (by Annika) Date: August 3, 2001 at 06:12:53 Pacific
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It looks like the file allocation table is in a bad way. This does not mean that it is evidence of bad sectors. It is probably because you have a single partition which is too large for Windows to deal with.
Make sure the BIOS is AUTO-detecting the drive.
If you can afford to lose the disk's contents use fdisk to re-partition it with 2x30Gb partitions (a single 60Gb partition is always open to problems), reformat it and re-install Windows. This should solve your problems.
And don't tell Dell's Tech support ... they don't deserve to know.
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