hard Drive Help
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Did format it ,
it gets to just over a gig then it seems to tick over
for ages before continuing to format,
then i load in operating system (and everything else) and everythings fine untill
the bad sector is reached and system crashes
dont think it can be fixed thats why I'm trying to hide it
it gets to just over a gig then it seems to tick over
for ages before continuing to format,
then i load in operating system (and everything else) and everythings fine untill
the bad sector is reached and system crashes
dont think it can be fixed thats why I'm trying to hide it
thats exactly what I thought Beewatch, I used fdisk to seperate
then made the rest of the h/drive (D) the active partition
loaded in a Ghost image of another H/drive
but couldn't get past the boot up screen
Whats this Media Tools program by ACR you speak of is it any good and where can I get it ?
then made the rest of the h/drive (D) the active partition
loaded in a Ghost image of another H/drive
but couldn't get past the boot up screen
Whats this Media Tools program by ACR you speak of is it any good and where can I get it ?
Would anything complain if you used FDISK to create a dummy partition (such as putting an EXTENDED partition first) and then the real partition second and made active?
And if DOS Fdisk can't do it, a suitable LINUX one might - with the option, possibly, to create an undefined partition, or a Linux swap that would be safe so long as you didn't actually install linux or use the CD version that detects any available swap.
And if DOS Fdisk can't do it, a suitable LINUX one might - with the option, possibly, to create an undefined partition, or a Linux swap that would be safe so long as you didn't actually install linux or use the CD version that detects any available swap.
Firstly thanx for the help
I've tried some the suggestions above but still no joy.
When I run scandisk the bad sector is still there ,whats annoying
is once scandisk marks the sector as bad then windows should not write to it, but in this case it stiil does which means I'm going to get a systems crash,dont know why it does that.
i like beewatch's idea about killing the bad sector but acr media tools is a bit pricey
but it looks like the only option, is there any other programs out
there that would kill the bad sector
I've tried some the suggestions above but still no joy.
When I run scandisk the bad sector is still there ,whats annoying
is once scandisk marks the sector as bad then windows should not write to it, but in this case it stiil does which means I'm going to get a systems crash,dont know why it does that.
i like beewatch's idea about killing the bad sector but acr media tools is a bit pricey
but it looks like the only option, is there any other programs out
there that would kill the bad sector
Well IPDAVE It's a seagate barracuda 20gig h/g
and I did as you said and d/loaded the software and
partitioned and formatted the drive and everything went as planned,
But I'm not sure about what happened next,ran scandisk
from dos to check if I had fixed it and it complained that it had found 2 fat 32 tables (or something like that) and asked if I wanted to replace table one with table 2 as there were less errors on table one, I opted to go with one (thinking at the time I might be deleting what I had just done)but wasn't sure,
possibly where I went wrong,
hope that makes sense
and I did as you said and d/loaded the software and
partitioned and formatted the drive and everything went as planned,
But I'm not sure about what happened next,ran scandisk
from dos to check if I had fixed it and it complained that it had found 2 fat 32 tables (or something like that) and asked if I wanted to replace table one with table 2 as there were less errors on table one, I opted to go with one (thinking at the time I might be deleting what I had just done)but wasn't sure,
possibly where I went wrong,
hope that makes sense
ipdave
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Yes, there is a 2nd backup copy of the FAT Table on many Windows OS' drives (you are using Win98?). I would try lo-level formatting only with the Seagate Utility, then formatting the drive at high level with DOS format. If the FAT table is corrupt, sectors could be marked good that are bad and vise-versa.
A friend reckoned that the Seagate drives MAY automatically revector bad sectors during zero-fill (in has case, a Linux-based raw zerofill resolved some problems)
The other approach is still to try to shift the satart of the used partition, by placing a dummy one first
http://www.ranish.com/part/
I believe this has a partioning capability with more control than FDISK.
The other approach is still to try to shift the satart of the used partition, by placing a dummy one first
http://www.ranish.com/part/
I believe this has a partioning capability with more control than FDISK.
I'll try the zero fill first,one question though
low level format
dos format
zero fill
Do I do all three and if so what order
and LTR12101b
I d/loaded the ranish partition manager and if the zero fill
doesnt work I'll give it a go,the thing is as soon as you create
your first partition , it is always assigned the letter C
How does this program work
I mean does it allow you you create a partition with no
drive letter so it is not recognised, it's a bit confusing
could you describe what to do
Btw i'm putting windows 98 on the disk (dont know if that
makes any difference)
low level format
dos format
zero fill
Do I do all three and if so what order
and LTR12101b
I d/loaded the ranish partition manager and if the zero fill
doesnt work I'll give it a go,the thing is as soon as you create
your first partition , it is always assigned the letter C
How does this program work
I mean does it allow you you create a partition with no
drive letter so it is not recognised, it's a bit confusing
could you describe what to do
Btw i'm putting windows 98 on the disk (dont know if that
makes any difference)
Hi Guys,
thanx for the help and
thought I'd let you know the outcome,
the bad sector was so badly damaged that when I tried to zero-fill
the system froze
and beewatch I tried the h/d regenerator but it couldn't recover it
either although it did fix other bad sectors I didn't know about
so it came in useful.
what I eventually did was to install windoze ME ,then used partition magic to create another primary partition after the bad
sector, and made it active which meant when I rebooted, the
partition with the bad sector became hidden and I then installed
windoze 98 on the new partition
It's ironic really since I remember it was an earlier version of
partition magic which caused the bad sector in the first place
thanx for the help and
thought I'd let you know the outcome,
the bad sector was so badly damaged that when I tried to zero-fill
the system froze
and beewatch I tried the h/d regenerator but it couldn't recover it
either although it did fix other bad sectors I didn't know about
so it came in useful.
what I eventually did was to install windoze ME ,then used partition magic to create another primary partition after the bad
sector, and made it active which meant when I rebooted, the
partition with the bad sector became hidden and I then installed
windoze 98 on the new partition
It's ironic really since I remember it was an earlier version of
partition magic which caused the bad sector in the first place
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