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woody@diversicomm.com wrote:

>Bob Katayama <bobkatt@netcom.ca> wrote:

>>isd.net wrote:

>>  The problem:  my E drive (a 586 meg partitioned portion of the 2.1 G
>>  HD)
>>  runs fine during normal scandisk and defrag... However during
>>  "Thorough
>>  Scandisk" it slows up through  cluster 8534 to around 8800  of the
>>  35000
>>  clusters available. At first it would just hang... but then it
>>  slowly went
>>  through w/ a number of "fix errors" and now just moves slowly
>>  through the
>>  cluster range of 8534...8800.

>>  In the interim I tried to fix the problem by reformatting the drive
>>  and
>>  then running "Thorough Scandisk".... same problem!    Then I tried
>>  to
>>  restore E drive files.... worked fine to a point.... (I think.... a
>>  bad
>>  cluster area)..... those program that successfully were restored
>>  work
>>  great.
>>  In further inquiry, I ran the Scandisk from Dos prompt..... and I
>>  get the
>>  following message "Scandisk encountered a data error whiling reading
>>  root
>>  directory entry number 0     ,,,, was unable to continue
>>  scandisk.... did
>>  not patch cluster"
>>  Also noted,  during the "Thorough Scandisk" there shows a number of
>>  BAD
>>  CLUSTERS  ... out there, but the scan stops before it gets to them
>>  with the
>>  above message.

>>  That all the information on the problem I can think of!

>>  What does the message mean and how can I work out the problem....
>>  p.s. I deleted all the *.tmp files on the system a couple of days
>>  ago...is
>>  there a file (?,tmp) needed for the writing of scandisk operations?

>>  Any HELP is appreciated.....

>>  Mark S. Banwart

>>  cpm@isd.net

>> Hi:

>>Scandisk and defrag was designed for a 540 meg hard drive or smaller.
>>Running these on a drive larger than 540 causes bad sectors to be
>>reported plus other errors.

>>Get the new Norton Utilities.
>>This supports EIDE hard drives.

>>Hope this helps
>>HTTP://WWW.NETCOM.CA/~bobkatt/helpme.htnl
>>HTTP://GEOCITIES.COM/ResearchTriangle/1026

>>Banffbears

>You may also have a drive that is bad.  Have a tech check it out for
>you.  If the drive is still under warrenty then you can send off for a
>replacement.
>Woody

I agree, have a tech test the drive...it could be going bad.

try to run Defrag before you use ScanDisk

MWH