The Quirke one just reminded me of how I use BING to check partitions.
Select the partition and then click on Resize. The first thing it will do is
check the partition. It's only a fast check, and it won't tell you anything
about the nature of the error(s) found, if any... I *think*... , and it
won't fix anything. For that you'll need to run a real disk checking tool.

Personally, I'd leave the partitions the way they are, then use some disk
checking tool on them, and if bad sectors are found, toss that HD into the
trash -- unless this is only a play machine and you're willing to risk
losing everything on it when the disk continues to go bad, and it *will*
continue to go bad.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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ms wrote in :

Sorry, editing

This post should read:
In my BING screen "Work with Partitions", I created 4 FAT32
partitions. They completely use the 10 GB hard drive, no free space.

The first 3 are listed in the screen with names including ANP, the
last one is MBR Entry 3. There is no indication the first partition is
active. Does BING do that automatically?

When I created the last partition, it went OK. When it completed
formatting and error checking, looked OK but now at the top of the
screen is the legend "errors exist". I looked in Properties in each
partition, no error notation.

Comment?

ms



BIOS screen on bootup,
Primary Master LBA, UDMA 66, 10247 MB

Standard Cmos Setup screen:
Primary Master Auto
Slave None
Secondary Master Auto
Slave None

IDE Autodetect:
2 (Y) 10241 1245 cyl .... LBA mode

1 10248 19856 Normal

3 10248 2482 Large

When I ran the Fujitsu diag, (it always ran fine before), it opened and
detects a non-Fujitsu hard drive! It won't run, and the only difference
is the BIOS is set to Auto.

Two issues:
a. BING says errors present, doesn't show them.

b. now the Fujitsu util does not detect the Fujitsu hard drive.

ms