-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Low level format?? (Sandy)
- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:28:49 -0400
Hi Roger, sorry to be so long getting back, but with my own dr appmnts,
blood test, hubbies doctor and his start of round #2 of maintenance chemo
starting up this Friday, just been preoccupied. Some good news tho! The
oncologist said after this round we will have another PET scan and if it
comes back clean then he WILL NOT (whoo hoo) have to complete the next 2
rounds of maintenance chemo! We're sooooooooo glad, but that still doesn't
make it any easier with this one coming up. I'm hoping he won't have too
hard a time.
At this point all I know is that the external has some kind of corrupt files
on it and I guess they are what is not allowing a scan to complete. I think
in one of my attempts to format it I did hit the compress so I may have made
things worse........hope not!
Thanks so much for helping with this. I would just love to have the use of
my 120 gig external.
Sandy in Fla
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Low level format?? (Sandy)
> Sandy,
>
> A low level format is strictly a last resort effort in my book and I'm
> sure
> Gman will agree.
> I posted my thoughts on your situation previously and Gman agreed with my
> diagnosis.
> To recap a little, and if I fully understand, you have an external drive
> with some files on it that are, or may be, compressed.
> For some reason you can't delete the files???
> You want to wipe the drive and reformat?
> Catch 22:
> Format won't work on a drive containing compressed files! To format the
> drive to clean it you must remove the compressed files FIRST.
> Catch 44: The files are locked?????
> Gman's low level format will wipe out those files.
> If you can remove all those files then a format should put the drive back
> in
> pristine condition.
> Removing the partitions on the drive will wipe out any reference to the
> files so format thinks the drive is empty.
> Fdisk is the old DOS tool used to remove partitions.
> XP doesn't have an Fdisk.
> XP has a Disk Management feature that is used to partition and unpartition
> drives.
> Catch 66:
> Since your drive is an external connected via USB I have no idea what you
> can do to the drive from withing Disk Management.
> If it will remove the partitions existing on the drive then the compressed
> files will disappear allowing you to format the drive.
> If you can see the external drive in Disk Management you might check to
> see
> what it will allow you to do???
>
> There is also another idea kicking around in my head to delete those
> immovable files on boot. There is a program called "Move on Boot" kicking
> around that was very popular several years ago to solve problems such as
> yours. I don't know if it would work in XP??
> Mark the files in MOB, reboot, and the files are deleted before the system
> boots into XP and locks the files.
>
> Another possible option is removing the drive from the external enclosure
> and connecting it directly to the controller in your machine.
> This would eliminate USB as a middle man and possibly allow more control
> of
> those files. It may not make any difference, I don't know? (and I'm the
> only
> one here, lol)
> Anyway, with a remote connection Gman could run through the various
> options
> and determine if a low level format is the last option open to get the
> drive
> back online?
>
> Until he gets back I would work on removing those compressed files. As I
> understand it you don't want to save them so anything that works is fair?
>
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