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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