harddisk problem

[Piet den Dulk]

Dear hardware experts,

I've got a laptop harddisk from a friend of mine. It has a cluster problem.
There was windows 98 installed on the hdd and it's Toshiba 4GB HDD.

I've tried everthing. first a windows format didn't work. It took hours
repairing each cluster which started from cluster 9000 and when it was at
16000 it was still busy.
Then a format in Partition Magic which worked but when I tried to install
windows98 it gave error during installation.
Then Fdisk and repartition the hdd worked but when trying to format the disk
the cluster repairing process reapears. I partitioned the hdd in two parts
one of 2.5 GB and the other 1.5GB the second part was able to be formatted
while the first one I got the cluster problem.

Finally I tried a low level format using ontrack "dataEraser" which also
gave an erro on the disk. Now it really works out on my nerves. Is this
harddisk defect? Or is there still something to try?

best regards,
Piet den Dulk (Netherlands)

 

[philo]

Dear hardware experts,

I've got a laptop harddisk from a friend of mine. It has a cluster problem.
There was windows 98 installed on the hdd and it's Toshiba 4GB HDD.

I've tried everthing. first a windows format didn't work. It took hours
repairing each cluster which started from cluster 9000 and when it was at
16000 it was still busy.
Then a format in Partition Magic which worked but when I tried to install
windows98 it gave error during installation.
Then Fdisk and repartition the hdd worked but when trying to format the disk
the cluster repairing process reapears. I partitioned the hdd in two parts
one of 2.5 GB and the other 1.5GB the second part was able to be formatted
while the first one I got the cluster problem.

Finally I tried a low level format using ontrack "dataEraser" which also
gave an erro on the disk. Now it really works out on my nerves. Is this
harddisk defect? Or is there still something to try?

best regards,
Piet den Dulk (Netherlands)

it's time for a new harddrive!

if a low level format does not fix it..it's just plain bad

 

[Edward A. Weissbard]

Piet den Dulk,

I think you have tried everything to get this drive to
work..............it's time for another one.

 

[DaveW]

You need to replace the harddrive. It is defective.

 

[Trent©]

Dear hardware experts,

I've got a laptop harddisk from a friend of mine. It has a cluster problem.
There was windows 98 installed on the hdd and it's Toshiba 4GB HDD.

I've tried everthing. first a windows format didn't work. It took hours
repairing each cluster which started from cluster 9000 and when it was at
16000 it was still busy.
Then a format in Partition Magic which worked but when I tried to install
windows98 it gave error during installation.
Then Fdisk and repartition the hdd worked but when trying to format the disk
the cluster repairing process reapears. I partitioned the hdd in two parts
one of 2.5 GB and the other 1.5GB the second part was able to be formatted
while the first one I got the cluster problem.

Finally I tried a low level format using ontrack "dataEraser" which also
gave an erro on the disk. Now it really works out on my nerves. Is this
harddisk defect? Or is there still something to try?

best regards,
Piet den Dulk (Netherlands)

Try it one more time in Partition Magic.

Boot into the PM disk...delete all partitions...then check the drive
there for errors.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

Follow Joan Rivers' example --- get pre-embalmed!

 

[Piet den Dulk]

I shall try your option, Is there an error check util in partion magic or is
there an other program which futfill such a job?

Piet den Dulk

 

[Piet den Dulk]

Dear hardware experts,

Thank you all for your advise.

regards,
Piet den Dulk