Re: Re bad clusters

From: djgordon (danigordon_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:15:36 -0600

It's not necessarily true that your hard drive is on its way out the door
just because it found an error or even a bad cluster. I'm sure you're
keeping backed up anyway, and as long as you continue to do that and keep a
scheduled maintenance going on your hard drive (never hurts to do disk
cleanup, chkscn, and defrag once a week) it's very possible your hard drive
will keep on ticking for a long time to come. Unless there are just
unrepairable bad sectors and constant problems no one can predict the demise
of a hard drive. But Jeanne is right, it is very simple to change out a hard
drive if you do come to that. It's a matter of unplugging the computer,
opening the case, finding the hard drive (usually upright along the front
bezel or in one of the drive cages--find a picture of one online and you
can't miss it), touching the metal frame to discharge static, unhooking the
power cable and the IDE cable from the hard drive, taking out two to four
screws, sliding it out, and doing this all in reverse to put the new one in.
It even sounds a little intensive just in what I said, but once you open
that case and see what I mean, it's not a big deal at all. However, I don't
think you're ready for a hard drive as long as your scans are able to repair
the errors. Just keep backups.

Dani

"Jackie U" <jundercoffer@ROMOneo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:90lWd.9838$3t3.7619@fe2.columbus.rr.com...
> A couple of days ago, my computer inexplicably started running slow. The
> problem cascaded until I could not even get on line, and the remote tech,
> who had had been connected with my computer, got disconnected. Since I
> could still receive email, he finally uploaded Firefox to me so I could
get
> on line and he could re-establish a connection to my computer. After
trying
> uninstalling and re-installing IE, rooting around in my registry, and
trying
> various cleaners such as Trend Micro and Moosoft, he finally ventured that
I
> might have a bad cluster. After performing a CHKSCN (Windows 2000), the
> problem was repaired. The tech told me that means it is the beginning of
> the end of my hard drive.
>
> Since I've gotten reliable answers here before, may I get a second opinion
> on this? I did a check on Google and the information seems to be borne
out
> by what he told me. I've already decided to take my computer into the
shop
> Monday, but just wanted more feedback. I have everything backed up
already.
> My hard drive is not quite 2 years old. I want to get a Maxtor as I've
> heard they are more reliable than Western Digital. Any other
> recommendations regarding hard drive types?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> To respond, remove ROMO when replying.
>
>

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