Hard drive insanity

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by arbymo
i remember that MS had a knowledge base article for scandisk that doesn't run on partitions larger than 32 MB, i think there was a fix for that in the KB article.

search the KB with the keyword scandisk, or 32 MB and select win98 SE as ur OS.

Didn't come across anything relevant...

http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&withinResults=&QuerySource=gsfxAdvancedSearch_Query&Product=w98&Queryc=scandisk&Query=scandisk&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Kooldino
last night I booted with a win98 bootdisk, and ran scandisk /surface /bla bla bla

It didn't even get past the first part of the test ("reading media descriptor") without giving me a problem. It was complaining about my LBA mode not being set correctly. I told it to ignore the error and check the disk anyway.

When I woke, it was about 75% finished the scan (based on a glance of the progress bar). For all I know, it could have been "80%". Anyway, I had already found a bad cluster, and it was stalling on finding the next cluster...ie, not examining any.

So even if the "disk" is "bad", it COULD still be the IDE controller, right?

So I came back home from work today and the progress didn't move. It was stuck at 84%. It also now makes sense to me why it didn't get past 80% with windows chkdsk...because that displays progress every 5% (5,10,15%, etc). So round 84% down and you get 80%.

I'll try to rerun the maxtor diag prog tonight to see what it comes up with.

[arbymo]

Kooldino : this is the article i was talking about :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243450

but as ur having problems with the real mode version of scandisk as well .. i don't think that this article applies to u.

i wish u luck tho with ur trouble.