Scandisk

[Bill Nelson]

When I have started up a Machine running XpPro this
morning it was very slow. I restatred the machine an it
is running a scandisk. However i have file errors comming
up on the scandisk. "File Record segment 10### is
unreadable errors from 10200 onwards to 10859 at present
and it is still going?. How bad is this error is the Hard
disk damaged or what. It has been running scandisk now
for over 35mins. Do I need to re-format and install
windows again on a new Hard Disk. What should I do.
Any help would be appreciated.
The machine was fine yesterday, whats gone wrong, ?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

May be bad sectors. I would download and run a drive diagnostic tool from
the web site of the drive manufacturer. These are usually free and run from
a bootable floppy. Be careful, as some of the tests will wipe data from the
drive, only use those that don't. If the drive fails, it may be a candidate
for replacement.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[NobodyMan]

When I have started up a Machine running XpPro this
morning it was very slow. I restatred the machine an it
is running a scandisk. However i have file errors comming
up on the scandisk. "File Record segment 10### is
unreadable errors from 10200 onwards to 10859 at present
and it is still going?. How bad is this error is the Hard
disk damaged or what. It has been running scandisk now
for over 35mins. Do I need to re-format and install
windows again on a new Hard Disk. What should I do.
Any help would be appreciated.
The machine was fine yesterday, whats gone wrong, ?

I can assure you, with 100 percent certainty, that you XP pro machine
is NOT running scandisk when restarting. That is because no NT
architecture OS, which XP is, has EVER shipped with Scandisk included.
That was included in 98/98se/ME.