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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
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>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