Posted by tig on November 16, 19100 at 12:42:40:
My HD will sometimes fail to boot up...I suspect it's virus' deed. However first run of scandisk and then a virusscan did not turn up anything suspicious.
But HD will fail to boot from time to time. So I finally decided to use FDisk. I just read in this Forum, one can use FDisk /mbr to erase the master boot; However, when I did a option list on fdisk that came with win98 (1st edition), it didn't seem to have this option.
Anyway, when I recreated the partition and stuff...reboot the machine and tried to format the newly created partition, I kept getting the message "Trying to recover allocation unit #######". Does this mean the HD is breaking up? Or does this suggest the IDE cable is acting up?
Aslo, this seems to tell me that the HD is partially bad, can I have format to bypass the recovering process? And I can still use whatever good space there are left? So to speed up the format process. The computer has been left running(recovering allocation units) for 2 days. =)