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  1. Sep 18th, 2003, 05:52 PM #1
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    damaged disc

    hi!

    is there a way to scan my hard drive to see if there's any damaged parts and maybe even repar or tell windows not to use them? pleeeease help!
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  2. Sep 18th, 2003, 05:56 PM #2
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    If they are damaged, windows won't be able to use them.

    Anyway, right click on the drive and properties. Find scan disk under 1 of the tabs and use it.
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    it doesnt find anything damaged...the win2k version that is...
    the win96/98/Me version do find damaged clusters (or whatever they're called) and mark them so that windows doesnt use them...
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    For that you must use the "scan surface" option. And if an error is found by W98, w98 marks that cluster, and the next time that cluster won't be check.
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  6. Sep 19th, 2003, 05:28 AM #5
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    When Windows discover bad sectors after doing the scan , then they are marked and isolated from being read/write .
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    but does the win2k scandisc mark any bad clusters? i dont think so because i have alot of problems with my hard disc and scandisc says nothing about anything being damaged
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  8. Sep 19th, 2003, 07:31 AM #7
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    When you did the scan , did you have 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors' option selected ? look at the image below :
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