Partition error--HELP

[atDFN]

I am working on an old E machine with Win98SE. There were starting to
be a lot of errors on startup. I removed the hard drive and put it
into another machine. Used Norton Ghost to do a backup of both
partitions on the hard drive. I got a message in Ghost that it would
have to do a sector by sector copy because of problems. I let it do
that. I also did something of a backup of both partitions by dragging
the entire drive to another drive. Obviously, there will be system
files missing from that copy.
At any rate, nothing I've tried has corrected the partition problem
and when I tried to restore with Ghost I got:
Application error 29005. Write sector failure, result = 1, drive =
129, sectors 20581 to 20645.
Does this leave me having to start over with a fresh install of Win98?
What would happen if I reinstalled Windows, then dragged the contents
of my "sort-of" backup onto the drive?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.


ben

 

[philo]

I am working on an old E machine with Win98SE. There were starting to
be a lot of errors on startup. I removed the hard drive and put it
into another machine. Used Norton Ghost to do a backup of both
partitions on the hard drive. I got a message in Ghost that it would
have to do a sector by sector copy because of problems. I let it do
that. I also did something of a backup of both partitions by dragging
the entire drive to another drive. Obviously, there will be system
files missing from that copy.
At any rate, nothing I've tried has corrected the partition problem
and when I tried to restore with Ghost I got:
Application error 29005. Write sector failure, result = 1, drive =
129, sectors 20581 to 20645.

definately sounds like a drive problem

Does this leave me having to start over with a fresh install of Win98?
What would happen if I reinstalled Windows, then dragged the contents
of my "sort-of" backup onto the drive?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

that will work as windows will recreate your swapfile

however you will have to bootup with your win98 floppy and issue
the command sys C:

may also need to do an fdisk /mbr

also you can run fdisk to be sure the partition is set active

 

[atDFN]

definately sounds like a drive problem




that will work as windows will recreate your swapfile

however you will have to bootup with your win98 floppy and issue
the command sys C:

may also need to do an fdisk /mbr

also you can run fdisk to be sure the partition is set active

Thanks. Do you think Partition Magic might help to recover the boot
sector of this drive?


ben

 

[philo]

Thanks. Do you think Partition Magic might help to recover the boot
sector of this drive?

In theory , partition magic should be able to copy your bootsector

but that's really not a big deal as fdisk /mbr will restore it ok

once you do that and sys C: you should be ok...

just be sure your partition is set active (can be done from within fdisk)

 

[atDFN]

In theory , partition magic should be able to copy your bootsector

but that's really not a big deal as fdisk /mbr will restore it ok

once you do that and sys C: you should be ok...

just be sure your partition is set active (can be done from within fdisk)

Thank you for your help. I'm being overly cautious and am restoring
the ghost partitions to another drive. Looks like it's working. So,
once I see that's working, I'll repartition and reformat the ailing
drive and restore it. I was testing some utilities to recover the
files on the disk, but I don't think they were going to work. However,
it looks like the ghost backup is good, just the drive that's bad.
Again, thanks.


ben

 

[Trent©]

I am working on an old E machine with Win98SE. There were starting to
be a lot of errors on startup.

Did you do a thorough Scandisk?

I removed the hard drive and put it
into another machine. Used Norton Ghost to do a backup of both
partitions on the hard drive. I got a message in Ghost that it would
have to do a sector by sector copy because of problems.

At that point, you shud quit Ghost and fix the drive.

I let it do
that. I also did something of a backup of both partitions by dragging
the entire drive to another drive. Obviously, there will be system
files missing from that copy.
At any rate, nothing I've tried has corrected the partition problem

What programs did you try? Did scandisk find anything?

and when I tried to restore with Ghost I got:
Application error 29005. Write sector failure, result = 1, drive =
129, sectors 20581 to 20645.
Does this leave me having to start over with a fresh install of Win98?

Dunno. Again...it doesn't sound like you even ran scandisk.

What would happen if I reinstalled Windows, then dragged the contents
of my "sort-of" backup onto the drive?

Dunno. It might 'sort-of' work! lol

Run a THOROUGH scandisk on the drive. Run Spinrite if you have it.

Good luck.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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