Win98 Sec Hard Disk Problem

• impaction

  3 Jun 02, 23:21

  My secondary hard disk drive can boot correctly, but the problem is that the computer displays msgs at startup that the drive may contain bad sectors, and recommend a scandisk surface scan.
  What shld i do?
  
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• zzzzland

  5 Jun 02, 16:08

  Go ahead for the ScanDisk...
  it will mark out the bad sectors on your HDD.. so that no further data will be written to the said space.
• octega

  19 Jun 02, 16:07

  Agree with zzzzland, go ahead with Microsoft Scandisk or if you have Norton, the Norton Disk Doctor. Do a complete surface scan. The system will mark out all unusable bad sectors
  
  Note. If ur hardisk starts to develop bad sectors, and in an alarming rate (ie, bad sector start to appear once a month, week,days) be careful, Hardisk is going to crash. THERE IS NO CURE FOR BAD SECTORS!!! WHY?
  
  Bad sectors are physical problem with the hardisk platters. Causes are usually created by dropping ur harddisk, subjected to shock, very old hardisk due to wear and tear over time and sudden power off (did not do proper power shut down).
  
  
• impaction

  19 Jun 02, 17:23

  oh i see.
  thanks for the help, guys.
  please help with the internet
  explorer problem if you can!
  
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