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WHAT DO SCANDISK THOROUGH BEEPS MEAN???
I have been running Scandisk Thorough for the past 18 hours. Its
gotten almost to the end (cluster 1,217,657 of 1,220,340), but now it has been sitting at this same cluster for the past hour giving various numbers of beeps. The beeps don't seem to form a specific code, but since the number of beeps is different each time, it doesn't seem like the thing is totally dead. Could Scandisk be now fixing this sector? It was running pretty smoothly for the past 18 hours at a constant rate of about 930 clusters per minute. Here are a few of the beep patterns: I got 28 beeps, 10 beeps, 21 beeps, 20 beeps, and 10 beeps. Each of these series of beeps was separated by about 10 or 20 seconds of silence. This continues on and on. So far its always been between 10 and 29 beeps. Occasionally it will give a series of beeps and just pause for a second and beep some more. One time it did 14 and 14, another time it did 6, 22 and 14. This is on a Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-XG29) running Windows ME. Other notes: It will run perfectly thru a Scandisk Standard, with no complaints. However, a Defrag crashes with error DEFRAG006, saying it can not access part of drive. And says to run Scandisk Thorough. WAIT!!! NEWS FLASH!!! The screen changed and it made it to 1,217,913! So apparently the thing is doing SOMETHING. I was thinking of just letting it run all weekend. Does that make sense? Anybody have any idea of what these beeps mean? |
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WHAT DO SCANDISK THOROUGH BEEPS MEAN???
From: "JJ Jones"
| I have been running Scandisk Thorough for the past 18 hours. Its | gotten almost to the end (cluster 1,217,657 of 1,220,340), but now it | has been sitting at this same cluster for the past hour giving various | numbers of beeps. The beeps don't seem to form a specific code, but | since the number of beeps is different each time, it doesn't seem like | the thing is totally dead. Could Scandisk be now fixing this sector? | | It was running pretty smoothly for the past 18 hours at a constant rate | of about 930 clusters per minute. | | Here are a few of the beep patterns: I got 28 beeps, 10 beeps, 21 | beeps, 20 beeps, and 10 beeps. Each of these series of beeps was | separated by about 10 or 20 seconds of silence. This continues on and | on. So far its always been between 10 and 29 beeps. | | Occasionally it will give a series of beeps and just pause for a second | and beep some more. One time it did 14 and 14, another time it did 6, | 22 and 14. | | This is on a Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-XG29) running Windows ME. | | Other notes: It will run perfectly thru a Scandisk Standard, with no | complaints. However, a Defrag crashes with error DEFRAG006, saying it | can not access part of drive. And says to run Scandisk Thorough. | | WAIT!!! NEWS FLASH!!! The screen changed and it made it to 1,217,913! | So apparently the thing is doing SOMETHING. I was thinking of just | letting it run all weekend. Does that make sense? | | Anybody have any idea of what these beeps mean? Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or not.. Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag) http://support.wdc.com/download/ Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT) http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Seagate - SeaTools http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/ Samsung - Disk manager http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ies/shdiag.htm -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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WHAT DO SCANDISK THOROUGH BEEPS MEAN???
that area of your disk is failing, the clusters are difficult to read but
possibly recoverable with a lot of tries Now is a great time (just before crash N burn) to discover the drive manufacturers utility programs to find whether it can be saved, or should be replaced. at the downloads or support section of the drive makers site -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "JJ Jones" wrote in message ups.com... I have been running Scandisk Thorough for the past 18 hours. Its gotten almost to the end (cluster 1,217,657 of 1,220,340), but now it has been sitting at this same cluster for the past hour giving various numbers of beeps. The beeps don't seem to form a specific code, but since the number of beeps is different each time, it doesn't seem like the thing is totally dead. Could Scandisk be now fixing this sector? It was running pretty smoothly for the past 18 hours at a constant rate of about 930 clusters per minute. Here are a few of the beep patterns: I got 28 beeps, 10 beeps, 21 beeps, 20 beeps, and 10 beeps. Each of these series of beeps was separated by about 10 or 20 seconds of silence. This continues on and on. So far its always been between 10 and 29 beeps. Occasionally it will give a series of beeps and just pause for a second and beep some more. One time it did 14 and 14, another time it did 6, 22 and 14. This is on a Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-XG29) running Windows ME. Other notes: It will run perfectly thru a Scandisk Standard, with no complaints. However, a Defrag crashes with error DEFRAG006, saying it can not access part of drive. And says to run Scandisk Thorough. WAIT!!! NEWS FLASH!!! The screen changed and it made it to 1,217,913! So apparently the thing is doing SOMETHING. I was thinking of just letting it run all weekend. Does that make sense? Anybody have any idea of what these beeps mean? |
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WHAT DO SCANDISK THOROUGH BEEPS MEAN???
JJ Jones wrote:
I have been running Scandisk Thorough for the past 18 hours. Its gotten almost to the end (cluster 1,217,657 of 1,220,340), but now it has been sitting at this same cluster for the past hour giving various numbers of beeps. The beeps don't seem to form a specific code, but since the number of beeps is different each time, it doesn't seem like the thing is totally dead. Could Scandisk be now fixing this sector? snip I'm sure the drive is bad but if you really want to use it... you could run fdisk and delete the partition... then recreate but only use 95%... and leave the rest (where the bad clusters are) unpartitioned. then reboot and format the drive... |
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