| Title: | Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago") |
| Notice: | Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything |
| Moderator: | EEMELI::BACKSTROM |
| Created: | Sun Nov 13 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2958 |
| Total number of notes: | 19968 |
Can anyone give me a pointer to a good disk repair tool
I ran the defragger on my HiNote Ultra II and it was 4% fragmented.
I defragged and it got 70% through before it bombed telling me to
run the Thorough ScanDisk. I did this (took ages - obviously some
bad parts) and it said that it had repaired everything. Running it
again however still reports about 2MB of bad sectors
The defragger still bombs out at the 70% mark and you can see quite
a few bad clusters
Running Sweep95 shows no virii, but does show that 3 files could not
be read - a ppt presentation, a windows CAB file and a DLL in the
windows/system directory called EMSUI32.DLL. The first 2 I can cope
with, but what does that DLL do?
Are there any tools that I can use to repair the drive? I recall that
there used to be a tool called Disk Doctor which may have done the
job, but that was years ago
Hopefully,
Simon
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| 2954.1 | hardware problem ? | TDCIS3::BOREL | If I don't meet you in this world ... | Thu Jun 05 1997 05:30 | 3 |
It sounds like a hardware problem. Try running a diagnostic.
Olivier
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| 2954.2 | NETCAD::GENOVA | Thu Jun 05 1997 09:20 | 7 | ||
I've had similar problems running scandisk under Win95.
By booting from a dos 6.22 floppy, I was able to get defrag to complete
after running scandisk/thorough on C:.
/art
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| 2954.3 | Disk Doctor is still around. | DANGER::ARRIGHI | and miles to go before I sleep | Thu Jun 05 1997 19:08 | 8 |
Norton Disk Doctor is in the Norton Utilities package and although my
disk problems have been few, it has fixed them without problem. The
same package has the Norton version of the defragger (Speed Disk) and
quite a bit of other useful stuff.
The current version of NU for Win95 is v2.0.
Tony
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| 2954.4 | More.. | SNOFS1::PENNYSIMON | Simon Penny - Storage BS, Sydney, Australia | Fri Jun 06 1997 04:01 | 10 |
Looks like a h/w problem - we sucked everything off and tried to format
the drive. It failed. It's the old PC hospital for that one
This notebook is ONLY 8 weeks old and that's the 2nd time we've had to
reformat the hard drive (the first time, the network adaptor drivers
blew up so badly that we needed to start afresh)
Great machine
Simon
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