[pchelpers] Re: Scandisk Fails
- From: "Cyril Halbach" <kr3y@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:01:34 -0400
Scott, thanks for the URL.
Here is the story on the hard drive: Since scandisk would not work in
SAFE mode and Disk Image would not build a disk image I used my secondary
zip backup to zip up the folders and backed up the registry.
Before reformatting the C: Drive I booted with the backup diskette and did
a DOS scandisk. It took many hours for it to complete. Thought it would
never finish. However to my amazement it actually worked and corrected all
the "Cross Linked" problems.
Running PowerMax diagnostic gave my C Drive a clean bill of health.
Cy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Cyril Halbach" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:49 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Scandisk Fails
Hi Cyril,
Here it is:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/
?epi_menuItemID=3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068
&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068
&epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068
&channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives
&downloadID=22
(wrapped; rejoin lines for complete link)
Or, go to http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads, then, under ATA
Hard Drives, select PowerMax.
Some diagnostics will query the SMART status first; you can look up
the SMART status code (sorry, don't have a list handy; would have to
hunt it down again) to find out what the drive says about itself.
Thes utilities cause the drive to fix a problem by writing to the
drive. Therefore, you'll need to back up your data before doing a
repair.
If the hard drive is mission-critical (such as for a server for a
business), you may wish to RMA the drive even if the diagnostic says
that the problem is fixed.
--Scott.
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