T
Terry
Do I have a bad drive?
I was getting Cyclic redundancy errors when I tried to copy a file to
another drive.
One time I got a disk error that I don't remember what it was but
after I rebooted the two drives were gone. It is a 160G Western
Digital drive formatted with two partitions. I was using Acronis for
a "try and decide" partition. I never used that feature so I deleted
both partitions and reformatted.
The first 75G partition formatted fine using the disk manager. The
second partition format never gave an error but hung at 50%.
I installed Partition Magic and deleted all the partitions and
reformatted two 75G partitions and everything went fine.
What is a good way to test the drive to make sure it is good?
I tried the built in tests that Partition magic preformed, but the
tests took less than 30 seconds.
I was getting Cyclic redundancy errors when I tried to copy a file to
another drive.
One time I got a disk error that I don't remember what it was but
after I rebooted the two drives were gone. It is a 160G Western
Digital drive formatted with two partitions. I was using Acronis for
a "try and decide" partition. I never used that feature so I deleted
both partitions and reformatted.
The first 75G partition formatted fine using the disk manager. The
second partition format never gave an error but hung at 50%.
I installed Partition Magic and deleted all the partitions and
reformatted two 75G partitions and everything went fine.
What is a good way to test the drive to make sure it is good?
I tried the built in tests that Partition magic preformed, but the
tests took less than 30 seconds.