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From: Geetanjali Talreja
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00
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I have partitioned my disk and have 95 on C and NT on D and E. Recently for some unknown reason 95 stopped booting. When I booted NT and ran a disk check on C with options to 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors', the result was the disk check ate up all my free space and disk showed '0 bytes available'. I cleared space from C, repeated above process and it kept eating up free space and making it bad sectors. Now all file space occupied on a 1.5 GB partition on C is about 300MB only, the rest is all converted to bad sectors by the disk check program. Now I wonder what is going on, is it possible that suddenly almost the whole disk is bad sectors? is this a virus which is showing everything as bad sectors? I could boot once in 'safe mode' on 95 and I ran disk de-fragmentor, it shows the disk map while it goes along de-fragmenting, and it was obvious there that most of the disk is of bad-sectors!!!! What is going on here? I am scared to run disk check on my other partitions. I have also applied McAfee version 4.0 on C and it shows no virus. C is FAT D and E are NTFS please help!!!
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