Posted by tig on November 20, 19100 at 16:15:53:
In Reply to: DAN CORRECT PRICE $102 posted by DAN on November 17, 19100 at 18:25:28:
Thanks Dan,
The HD that failed was a Samsung 4.3GB. So I'm avoiding Samsung now. =) But still tho, is there a way to jump away from the "recovering allocation unit" part during format? I still would like to use the good clusters that has been formated (65% of the original)
: BELOW IS COPY OF CORRECT PRICE,,THE FDISK /MBR
: WOULD REMOVE A BOOTSECTOR VIRUS,,BUT IT SOUND
: AS THOUGH YOU HAVE A LOT OF BAD SPOTS
: DAN
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: 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. =)