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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
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