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gully
Hi,
I am running Win2k Pro on an older computer (433 Celeron). I am using it as
a storage computer. I have 3 harddrives - a small 6.4gb with the OS and two
others (80gb and 160gb). The 80gb was almost full (under 500mb left) and the
160gb drive had 50gb of files on it. For some dumb reason I decided to copy
all the files from the 80gb drive to the 160gb. It said that it would take
about 130minutes. When I came back 4 hours later, the computer had locked up
(trying to copy the same file over and over - had copied about 80% of the
files). I could not stop the process - only option was to reboot.
When I rebooted, scandisk took over. For the last 2 days I have a scrolling
message on the screen that says "bad links in lost chain at cluster
********* corrected" (last check is was at 4,900,000 and counting).
Sometimes there is a line where the word "truncated???) is at the end of it.
I had read a couple of places on the web that mentioned that 160gb
harddrives had either 4.1mb of clusters (can't be true since I am at 4.9mb)
or 41mb of clusters (which means the computer has another 37mb more to go -
or another 18 days - YUCHHHHH).
If I were to stop the process, would the only files lost be the ones that I
was trying to copy from one drive to another? Would the files that are on
the 80gb be OK? Would the files that were on the 160gb drive originally
(50gb) be OK? Would the only ones that would be toast be the ones that were
to be copied? Would they be converted to chk files?
HELP!!!!!
Jerry
I am running Win2k Pro on an older computer (433 Celeron). I am using it as
a storage computer. I have 3 harddrives - a small 6.4gb with the OS and two
others (80gb and 160gb). The 80gb was almost full (under 500mb left) and the
160gb drive had 50gb of files on it. For some dumb reason I decided to copy
all the files from the 80gb drive to the 160gb. It said that it would take
about 130minutes. When I came back 4 hours later, the computer had locked up
(trying to copy the same file over and over - had copied about 80% of the
files). I could not stop the process - only option was to reboot.
When I rebooted, scandisk took over. For the last 2 days I have a scrolling
message on the screen that says "bad links in lost chain at cluster
********* corrected" (last check is was at 4,900,000 and counting).
Sometimes there is a line where the word "truncated???) is at the end of it.
I had read a couple of places on the web that mentioned that 160gb
harddrives had either 4.1mb of clusters (can't be true since I am at 4.9mb)
or 41mb of clusters (which means the computer has another 37mb more to go -
or another 18 days - YUCHHHHH).
If I were to stop the process, would the only files lost be the ones that I
was trying to copy from one drive to another? Would the files that are on
the 80gb be OK? Would the files that were on the 160gb drive originally
(50gb) be OK? Would the only ones that would be toast be the ones that were
to be copied? Would they be converted to chk files?
HELP!!!!!
Jerry