🚀 go-pugleaf

Buy a new hard drive or send the one back to the manufacture.

The manufacture of the hard drive gives a 5 year warrantee so the
replacement is free.

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Regards,
Bob
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PC's endusers   NO NO NO NO NO You can't do that

russellb@erols.com

isd.net <cpm@isd.net> wrote in article
<01bc308c$67629580$9ec801cf@isd.net.isd.net>...
> 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 
> 
> 
>