Boot up/Bad Sector

When I rebooted my laptop the other day, it indicated that there were some
bad sectors found and that I should run Scandisk. Once the scandisk was
completed, it than began a surface scan. (I just replaced the hard drive one
month ago with an IBM Travelstar 6.0) The surface scan was agonizingly slow.
It would find a bad sector and ask if I wanted to "Fix It", which I did.
After approximately 9 hours it had only completed 50% of the scan - 1,500,000
sectors, completed scanning 800,000 and found 60 bad sectors. While
attempting to move the laptop to another room, I unplugged the power source
and the computer froze. What could have caused bad sectors, how do I fix
it, and should the scan take so long?

Thanks.

Few words of advise: your HD is under warranty, but keep the moving the
laptop out of the story, for unless you dropped it, it shouldn't cause it.
If you are talking about moving the laptop as it was doing the surface scan,
they don't really like it at that particular time, though your problem
already existed. If you were moving it prior, but during extensive HD
activity, I know them to not write files properly, thus data loss, but not
bad sectors, unless you really shook, bumped or jerked it. If your computer
has a HD LED, watch that it is not lit before unplugging it or moving it.

Slow? Depends on the PC... the older, less powerful, the slower.

"sheppardwk" wrote in message
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When I rebooted my laptop the other day, it indicated that there were some
bad sectors found and that I should run Scandisk. Once the scandisk was
completed, it than began a surface scan. (I just replaced the hard drive
one
month ago with an IBM Travelstar 6.0) The surface scan was agonizingly
slow.
It would find a bad sector and ask if I wanted to "Fix It", which I did.
After approximately 9 hours it had only completed 50% of the scan -
1,500,000
sectors, completed scanning 800,000 and found 60 bad sectors. While
attempting to move the laptop to another room, I unplugged the power
source
and the computer froze. What could have caused bad sectors, how do I fix
it, and should the scan take so long?

Thanks.

A "Scandisk /Surface" in DOS is interminably slow. Any of these will be
much, much quicker. These, however, cannot repair a file system, such as
FAT32, but only will mark off bad sectors that will not hold data, after
attempting to duplicate/remap any important data elsewhere. Only
Scandisk will attempt to repair the file system (what Windows
understands the data on the hard drive to actual mean), BUT it won't do
a great job when there is a great one to do...
http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/scandisk.htm

........Start......of quote of Glee..........
Download the diagnostics for your brand hard drive.

If you do not know the brand, download Seagate SeaTools. After it is
downloaded, double-click it, and it will create a bootable floppy disk
with the diagnostic program on it. Then boot your problem computer
using the bootable floppy, and choose the Generic long test. It will
create a report that you can read from within the program when the tests
are complete, and it is also saved as a text file on the floppy disk.

Alternately, you can use the evaluation version of Ontrack Data Advisor,
which is the same program in its original version. They both are
created the same way.

Seagate SeaTools:
http://download.microshopper.com/har...e/seatoold.exe
or
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html

Error codes:
http://www.seagate.com/support/npf/s...ror_index.html

Data Advisor:
http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor
The download link has not been working recently...if it does not
connect, use Seagate SeaTools instead.

Installation instructions for both:
http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/downloadinfo.asp

If you DO know the brand, find the diagnostics he

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download...es/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
or
www.westerndigital.com
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

....glen
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP
............End......of quote.........


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"sheppardwk" wrote in message
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| When I rebooted my laptop the other day, it indicated that there were
some
| bad sectors found and that I should run Scandisk. Once the scandisk
was
| completed, it than began a surface scan. (I just replaced the hard
drive one
| month ago with an IBM Travelstar 6.0) The surface scan was
agonizingly slow.
| It would find a bad sector and ask if I wanted to "Fix It", which I
did.
| After approximately 9 hours it had only completed 50% of the scan -
1,500,000
| sectors, completed scanning 800,000 and found 60 bad sectors. While
| attempting to move the laptop to another room, I unplugged the power
source
| and the computer froze. What could have caused bad sectors, how do I
fix
| it, and should the scan take so long?
|
| Thanks.
|