XP on Fat32x advice ...?

....looks like I'll have to ask in here where all the brains are, seeing as
no advice is forthcoming in xp general :-)
....a tenuous link to W98, and justification (blush!) for posting in here
would be would be that I still work on a lot of machines with W98 on'em, and
this post might catch the attention of gurus like cquirke ...even though
it's a boring post ....that I'm about to paste but, I couldn't think of a
way to condense my question ...in fact I'm not even sure what the question
should be ! :-)

Now and again, Norton Disk Doctor and / or XP Home's chkdsk.exe detects
something wrong with 0C FAT32x on my c: boot drive. This is after having
gone through the hideously manual procedure, in XP Home ed., of "scheduling"
a chkdsk.exe for each logical drive at "next boot-up." And now and again
XP's chkdsk detects something wrong with one or two, or more, drives on my
master and/or slave hd's.

Getting more and more dismayed about this over the past few months, I
downloaded Maxtor's Powermax.exe and ran it's "thorough" option, on both
hd's,
which marked out 1024 bytes as "bad" on drive h: and 160 kilobytes as "bad"
on drive i: Drive h: has nothing on it except a "Recycled" folder and a
"System Volume Information" folder and both are "faded" - flagged system
and/or hidden I s'pose. Drive i: is my main data / programs(as supplied
on cd) drive, and my OE "message store" is also on it - ( I wondered if XP's
OE / dbx's are somehow mashing the fat's ! ). I've pasted in a "dir"
piped to a txt file, and a chkdsk for drives h: and i: at the bottom of this
post, in case they're of use. ...was going to paste a dir /s for drive i:
but, it was massive and perhaps would reveal too much ! :-)

Now, in the past, I'd run Norton Diskdoctor's "thorough" surface scan on all
drives, and as I said, now and again, it would find something wrong with one
or more drives on both hd's, more often with my boot drive c:

I'm beginning to suspect that these Maxtor drives are CRAP, and I'm getting
tempted to throw them out and replace them with Seagate. ...btw, both hd's
are in the bottom of a Lian Li case with two fans blowing on'em.

Any thoughts on my fats appreciated :-)

regards, Richard

These are my hard disk drives:-

Description Disk drive (...slave hd - 5 logical drives)
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 5
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 8,257,536 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 2,105,703,936 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 4,203,150,336 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #3
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 38,576,595,456 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #4
Partition Size 8.39 GB (9,006,649,344 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 72,950,040,576 bytes

Description Disk drive (...master hd - 4 logical drives c: d: e: f
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 10,742,247,936 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 21,484,463,616 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #3
Partition Size 46.31 GB (49,730,010,624 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,226,679,296 bytes

####
Drive A:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 2.64 GB (2,839,937,024 bytes)
Volume Name 26012004
Volume Serial Number 0D1D16D6

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.98 GB (10,716,061,696 bytes)
Volume Name D
Volume Serial Number 284016D9

Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.99 GB (10,730,733,568 bytes)
Volume Name E
Volume Serial Number 117216DD

Drive F:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 46.30 GB (49,717,837,824 bytes)
Free Space 46.26 GB (49,675,632,640 bytes)
Volume Name F
Volume Serial Number 025316EC

Drive G: ( 1st drive on 2nd hd and my 1gb pagefile.sys is on this drive )
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 832.84 MB (873,300,992 bytes)
Volume Name H2P1
Volume Serial Number BEE29673

Drive H:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 1.94 GB (2,080,448,512 bytes)
Volume Name H2P2
Volume Serial Number FE837354

Drive I:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 27.39 GB (29,406,396,416 bytes)
Volume Name H2P3_PROGS
Volume Serial Number 3E245033

Drive J:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 19.93 GB (21,404,483,584 bytes)
Volume Name H2P4
Volume Serial Number 7DC52D0A

Drive K:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 8.38 GB (8,997,838,848 bytes)
Free Space 8.38 GB (8,996,864,000 bytes)
Volume Name H2P5
Volume Serial Number BD6609EF

Drive X:
Description CD-ROM Disc

Drive Y:
Description CD-ROM Disc

####
chkdsk h: i:\chkdsk_h.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P2 created 10/30/2003 9:41 AM
Volume Serial Number is FE83-7354
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

2,081,137,664 bytes total disk space.
10,240 bytes in 10 hidden files.
11,264 bytes in 11 folders.
665,600 bytes in 19 files.
1,024 bytes in bad sectors.
2,080,448,512 bytes available on disk.

1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,032,361 total allocation units on disk.
2,031,688 allocation units available on disk.

####
chkdsk i: i:\chkdsk_i.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P3_PROGS created 10/30/2003 10:50 AM
Volume Serial Number is 3E24-5033
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
33,559,552 KB total disk space.
672 KB in 21 hidden files.
39,552 KB in 1,235 folders.
4,803,264 KB in 18,351 files.
160 KB in bad sectors.
28,715,872 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,048,736 total allocation units on disk.
897,371 allocation units available on disk.

....oops!
please ignore me, have just had to reset xp general NG and all is well !

regards, Richard


"RJK" wrote in message
...
...looks like I'll have to ask in here where all the brains are, seeing as
no advice is forthcoming in xp general :-)
...a tenuous link to W98, and justification (blush!) for posting in here
would be would be that I still work on a lot of machines with W98 on'em,
and
this post might catch the attention of gurus like cquirke ...even though
it's a boring post ....that I'm about to paste but, I couldn't think of a
way to condense my question ...in fact I'm not even sure what the question
should be ! :-)

Now and again, Norton Disk Doctor and / or XP Home's chkdsk.exe detects
something wrong with 0C FAT32x on my c: boot drive. This is after having
gone through the hideously manual procedure, in XP Home ed., of
"scheduling"
a chkdsk.exe for each logical drive at "next boot-up." And now and again
XP's chkdsk detects something wrong with one or two, or more, drives on my
master and/or slave hd's.

Getting more and more dismayed about this over the past few months, I
downloaded Maxtor's Powermax.exe and ran it's "thorough" option, on both
hd's,
which marked out 1024 bytes as "bad" on drive h: and 160 kilobytes as
"bad"
on drive i: Drive h: has nothing on it except a "Recycled" folder and a
"System Volume Information" folder and both are "faded" - flagged system
and/or hidden I s'pose. Drive i: is my main data / programs(as supplied
on cd) drive, and my OE "message store" is also on it - ( I wondered if
XP's
OE / dbx's are somehow mashing the fat's ! ). I've pasted in a "dir"
piped to a txt file, and a chkdsk for drives h: and i: at the bottom of
this
post, in case they're of use. ...was going to paste a dir /s for drive
i:
but, it was massive and perhaps would reveal too much ! :-)

Now, in the past, I'd run Norton Diskdoctor's "thorough" surface scan on
all
drives, and as I said, now and again, it would find something wrong with
one
or more drives on both hd's, more often with my boot drive c:

I'm beginning to suspect that these Maxtor drives are CRAP, and I'm
getting
tempted to throw them out and replace them with Seagate. ...btw, both hd's
are in the bottom of a Lian Li case with two fans blowing on'em.

Any thoughts on my fats appreciated :-)

regards, Richard

These are my hard disk drives:-

Description Disk drive (...slave hd - 5 logical drives)
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 5
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 8,257,536 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 2,105,703,936 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 4,203,150,336 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #3
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 38,576,595,456 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #4
Partition Size 8.39 GB (9,006,649,344 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 72,950,040,576 bytes

Description Disk drive (...master hd - 4 logical drives c: d: e: f
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 10,742,247,936 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 21,484,463,616 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #3
Partition Size 46.31 GB (49,730,010,624 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,226,679,296 bytes

####
Drive A:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 2.64 GB (2,839,937,024 bytes)
Volume Name 26012004
Volume Serial Number 0D1D16D6

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.98 GB (10,716,061,696 bytes)
Volume Name D
Volume Serial Number 284016D9

Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.99 GB (10,730,733,568 bytes)
Volume Name E
Volume Serial Number 117216DD

Drive F:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 46.30 GB (49,717,837,824 bytes)
Free Space 46.26 GB (49,675,632,640 bytes)
Volume Name F
Volume Serial Number 025316EC

Drive G: ( 1st drive on 2nd hd and my 1gb pagefile.sys is on this
drive )
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 832.84 MB (873,300,992 bytes)
Volume Name H2P1
Volume Serial Number BEE29673

Drive H:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 1.94 GB (2,080,448,512 bytes)
Volume Name H2P2
Volume Serial Number FE837354

Drive I:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 27.39 GB (29,406,396,416 bytes)
Volume Name H2P3_PROGS
Volume Serial Number 3E245033

Drive J:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 19.93 GB (21,404,483,584 bytes)
Volume Name H2P4
Volume Serial Number 7DC52D0A

Drive K:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 8.38 GB (8,997,838,848 bytes)
Free Space 8.38 GB (8,996,864,000 bytes)
Volume Name H2P5
Volume Serial Number BD6609EF

Drive X:
Description CD-ROM Disc

Drive Y:
Description CD-ROM Disc

####
chkdsk h: i:\chkdsk_h.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P2 created 10/30/2003 9:41 AM
Volume Serial Number is FE83-7354
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

2,081,137,664 bytes total disk space.
10,240 bytes in 10 hidden files.
11,264 bytes in 11 folders.
665,600 bytes in 19 files.
1,024 bytes in bad sectors.
2,080,448,512 bytes available on disk.

1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,032,361 total allocation units on disk.
2,031,688 allocation units available on disk.

####
chkdsk i: i:\chkdsk_i.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P3_PROGS created 10/30/2003 10:50 AM
Volume Serial Number is 3E24-5033
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
33,559,552 KB total disk space.
672 KB in 21 hidden files.
39,552 KB in 1,235 folders.
4,803,264 KB in 18,351 files.
160 KB in bad sectors.
28,715,872 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,048,736 total allocation units on disk.
897,371 allocation units available on disk.

Have another shot of JD ;-)

Dave




"RJK" wrote in message
...
| ...oops!
| please ignore me, have just had to reset xp general NG and all is well !
|
| regards, Richard

You're on track, ...had a glass of red wine about 30 minutes ago, about to
have another when I sneak outside for a cigarette as well, in a few minutes
:-)

regards, Richard


"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
Have another shot of JD ;-)

Dave




"RJK" wrote in message
...
| ...oops!
| please ignore me, have just had to reset xp general NG and all is well !
|
| regards, Richard

Too much messing around. 1KB allocation units for H:, and 32KB allocation
units for I: Both FAT 32, partition size difference should not see this by
default fdisk for allocation unit size difference.
"RJK" wrote in message
...
...looks like I'll have to ask in here where all the brains are, seeing as
no advice is forthcoming in xp general :-)
...a tenuous link to W98, and justification (blush!) for posting in here
would be would be that I still work on a lot of machines with W98 on'em,
and
this post might catch the attention of gurus like cquirke ...even though
it's a boring post ....that I'm about to paste but, I couldn't think of a
way to condense my question ...in fact I'm not even sure what the question
should be ! :-)

Now and again, Norton Disk Doctor and / or XP Home's chkdsk.exe detects
something wrong with 0C FAT32x on my c: boot drive. This is after having
gone through the hideously manual procedure, in XP Home ed., of
"scheduling"
a chkdsk.exe for each logical drive at "next boot-up." And now and again
XP's chkdsk detects something wrong with one or two, or more, drives on my
master and/or slave hd's.

Getting more and more dismayed about this over the past few months, I
downloaded Maxtor's Powermax.exe and ran it's "thorough" option, on both
hd's,
which marked out 1024 bytes as "bad" on drive h: and 160 kilobytes as
"bad"
on drive i: Drive h: has nothing on it except a "Recycled" folder and a
"System Volume Information" folder and both are "faded" - flagged system
and/or hidden I s'pose. Drive i: is my main data / programs(as supplied
on cd) drive, and my OE "message store" is also on it - ( I wondered if
XP's
OE / dbx's are somehow mashing the fat's ! ). I've pasted in a "dir"
piped to a txt file, and a chkdsk for drives h: and i: at the bottom of
this
post, in case they're of use. ...was going to paste a dir /s for drive
i:
but, it was massive and perhaps would reveal too much ! :-)

Now, in the past, I'd run Norton Diskdoctor's "thorough" surface scan on
all
drives, and as I said, now and again, it would find something wrong with
one
or more drives on both hd's, more often with my boot drive c:

I'm beginning to suspect that these Maxtor drives are CRAP, and I'm
getting
tempted to throw them out and replace them with Seagate. ...btw, both hd's
are in the bottom of a Lian Li case with two fans blowing on'em.

Any thoughts on my fats appreciated :-)

regards, Richard

These are my hard disk drives:-

Description Disk drive (...slave hd - 5 logical drives)
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 5
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 8,257,536 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 2,105,703,936 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 4,203,150,336 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #3
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 38,576,595,456 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #4
Partition Size 8.39 GB (9,006,649,344 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 72,950,040,576 bytes

Description Disk drive (...master hd - 4 logical drives c: d: e: f
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 10,742,247,936 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 21,484,463,616 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #3
Partition Size 46.31 GB (49,730,010,624 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,226,679,296 bytes

####
Drive A:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 2.64 GB (2,839,937,024 bytes)
Volume Name 26012004
Volume Serial Number 0D1D16D6

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.98 GB (10,716,061,696 bytes)
Volume Name D
Volume Serial Number 284016D9

Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.99 GB (10,730,733,568 bytes)
Volume Name E
Volume Serial Number 117216DD

Drive F:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 46.30 GB (49,717,837,824 bytes)
Free Space 46.26 GB (49,675,632,640 bytes)
Volume Name F
Volume Serial Number 025316EC

Drive G: ( 1st drive on 2nd hd and my 1gb pagefile.sys is on this
drive )
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 832.84 MB (873,300,992 bytes)
Volume Name H2P1
Volume Serial Number BEE29673

Drive H:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 1.94 GB (2,080,448,512 bytes)
Volume Name H2P2
Volume Serial Number FE837354

Drive I:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 27.39 GB (29,406,396,416 bytes)
Volume Name H2P3_PROGS
Volume Serial Number 3E245033

Drive J:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 19.93 GB (21,404,483,584 bytes)
Volume Name H2P4
Volume Serial Number 7DC52D0A

Drive K:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 8.38 GB (8,997,838,848 bytes)
Free Space 8.38 GB (8,996,864,000 bytes)
Volume Name H2P5
Volume Serial Number BD6609EF

Drive X:
Description CD-ROM Disc

Drive Y:
Description CD-ROM Disc

####
chkdsk h: i:\chkdsk_h.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P2 created 10/30/2003 9:41 AM
Volume Serial Number is FE83-7354
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

2,081,137,664 bytes total disk space.
10,240 bytes in 10 hidden files.
11,264 bytes in 11 folders.
665,600 bytes in 19 files.
1,024 bytes in bad sectors.
2,080,448,512 bytes available on disk.

1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,032,361 total allocation units on disk.
2,031,688 allocation units available on disk.

####
chkdsk i: i:\chkdsk_i.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P3_PROGS created 10/30/2003 10:50 AM
Volume Serial Number is 3E24-5033
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
33,559,552 KB total disk space.
672 KB in 21 hidden files.
39,552 KB in 1,235 folders.
4,803,264 KB in 18,351 files.
160 KB in bad sectors.
28,715,872 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,048,736 total allocation units on disk.
897,371 allocation units available on disk.

See http://snipurl.com/88ps
--
~PA Bear

RJK wrote:
...looks like I'll have to ask in here where all the brains are, seeing as
no advice is forthcoming in xp general :-)
...a tenuous link to W98, and justification (blush!) for posting in here
would be would be that I still work on a lot of machines with W98 on'em,
and this post might catch the attention of gurus like cquirke ...even
though it's a boring post ....that I'm about to paste but, I couldn't
think of a way to condense my question ...in fact I'm not even sure what
the question should be ! :-)

Now and again, Norton Disk Doctor and / or XP Home's chkdsk.exe detects
something wrong with 0C FAT32x on my c: boot drive. This is after having
gone through the hideously manual procedure, in XP Home ed., of
"scheduling" a chkdsk.exe for each logical drive at "next boot-up." And
now and again XP's chkdsk detects something wrong with one or two, or
more, drives on my master and/or slave hd's.

Getting more and more dismayed about this over the past few months, I
downloaded Maxtor's Powermax.exe and ran it's "thorough" option, on both
hd's,
which marked out 1024 bytes as "bad" on drive h: and 160 kilobytes as
"bad" on drive i: Drive h: has nothing on it except a "Recycled" folder
and a "System Volume Information" folder and both are "faded" - flagged
system and/or hidden I s'pose. Drive i: is my main data / programs(as
supplied on cd) drive, and my OE "message store" is also on it - ( I
wondered if XP's OE / dbx's are somehow mashing the fat's ! ). I've
pasted in a "dir"
piped to a txt file, and a chkdsk for drives h: and i: at the bottom of
this post, in case they're of use. ...was going to paste a dir /s for
drive i: but, it was massive and perhaps would reveal too much ! :-)

Now, in the past, I'd run Norton Diskdoctor's "thorough" surface scan on
all drives, and as I said, now and again, it would find something wrong
with one or more drives on both hd's, more often with my boot drive c:

I'm beginning to suspect that these Maxtor drives are CRAP, and I'm
getting tempted to throw them out and replace them with Seagate. ...btw,
both hd's are in the bottom of a Lian Li case with two fans blowing on'em.

Any thoughts on my fats appreciated :-)

regards, Richard

These are my hard disk drives:-

Description Disk drive (...slave hd - 5 logical drives)
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 5
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 1
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 8,257,536 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 1.95 GB (2,097,414,144 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 2,105,703,936 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 4,203,150,336 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #3
Partition Size 32.01 GB (34,373,412,864 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 38,576,595,456 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #4
Partition Size 8.39 GB (9,006,649,344 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 72,950,040,576 bytes

Description Disk drive (...master hd - 4 logical drives c: d: e: f
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Maxtor 6Y080L0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 76.33 GB (81,956,689,920 bytes)
Total Cylinders 9,964
Total Sectors 160,071,660
Total Tracks 2,540,820
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 10,742,247,936 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 10.00 GB (10,742,183,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 21,484,463,616 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #3
Partition Size 46.31 GB (49,730,010,624 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 32,226,679,296 bytes

####
Drive A:
Description 3 1/2 Inch Floppy Drive

Drive C:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 2.64 GB (2,839,937,024 bytes)
Volume Name 26012004
Volume Serial Number 0D1D16D6

Drive D:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.98 GB (10,716,061,696 bytes)
Volume Name D
Volume Serial Number 284016D9

Drive E:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 9.99 GB (10,731,675,648 bytes)
Free Space 9.99 GB (10,730,733,568 bytes)
Volume Name E
Volume Serial Number 117216DD

Drive F:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 46.30 GB (49,717,837,824 bytes)
Free Space 46.26 GB (49,675,632,640 bytes)
Volume Name F
Volume Serial Number 025316EC

Drive G: ( 1st drive on 2nd hd and my 1gb pagefile.sys is on this drive
) Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 832.84 MB (873,300,992 bytes)
Volume Name H2P1
Volume Serial Number BEE29673

Drive H:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 1.94 GB (2,081,137,664 bytes)
Free Space 1.94 GB (2,080,448,512 bytes)
Volume Name H2P2
Volume Serial Number FE837354

Drive I:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 27.39 GB (29,406,396,416 bytes)
Volume Name H2P3_PROGS
Volume Serial Number 3E245033

Drive J:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 32.00 GB (34,364,981,248 bytes)
Free Space 19.93 GB (21,404,483,584 bytes)
Volume Name H2P4
Volume Serial Number 7DC52D0A

Drive K:
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System FAT32
Size 8.38 GB (8,997,838,848 bytes)
Free Space 8.38 GB (8,996,864,000 bytes)
Volume Name H2P5
Volume Serial Number BD6609EF

Drive X:
Description CD-ROM Disc

Drive Y:
Description CD-ROM Disc

####
chkdsk h: i:\chkdsk_h.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P2 created 10/30/2003 9:41 AM
Volume Serial Number is FE83-7354
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

2,081,137,664 bytes total disk space.
10,240 bytes in 10 hidden files.
11,264 bytes in 11 folders.
665,600 bytes in 19 files.
1,024 bytes in bad sectors.
2,080,448,512 bytes available on disk.

1,024 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,032,361 total allocation units on disk.
2,031,688 allocation units available on disk.

####
chkdsk i: i:\chkdsk_i.txt
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume H2P3_PROGS created 10/30/2003 10:50 AM
Volume Serial Number is 3E24-5033
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
33,559,552 KB total disk space.
672 KB in 21 hidden files.
39,552 KB in 1,235 folders.
4,803,264 KB in 18,351 files.
160 KB in bad sectors.
28,715,872 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,048,736 total allocation units on disk.
897,371 allocation units available on disk.

I hope that was a good Chianti.

Dave



"RJK" wrote in message
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| You're on track, ...had a glass of red wine about 30 minutes ago, about to
| have another when I sneak outside for a cigarette as well, in a few minutes
| :-)
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| regards, Richard
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| "David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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| Have another shot of JD ;-)
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| Dave
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| "RJK" wrote in message
| ...
| | ...oops!
| | please ignore me, have just had to reset xp general NG and all is well !
| |
| | regards, Richard
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