NTFS Disk Utility

[yohann]

I think I have some bad clusters/sectors on my hard drive. Can anyone recommend a W2K disk utility that will let me mask off the bad areas. I think this could be the cause of my random freeze ups.

Thanks John Farrow
Cloudcroft, New Mexico

 

[Eguy]

Hi John,

In Explorer, right click on the drive. Select Properties, Tools, Error-Checking. Click on "Check Now". Then be sure to check the box that says "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". Depending on the size of your drive this may take quite a long time.

Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[yohann]

ED,
Gave that a try but it didn't find any. Its a Thinkpad and when I ran the PC Doctor program from IBM, it found two bad areas during the scan but didn't offer to marked them off from futher use. Used to use PC TOOLS disk utilities back in the pre windows area and they did what I need, but that was then and now is now.

Thanks for your help John Farrow
Cloudcroft, New Mexico

 

[wolluf]

Eguy's advice was good - only thing I can suggest is going to website of disk manufacturer & downloading their disk checking app (they nearly all have one). If that finds no problems, suspect your freeze ups originate elsewhere (eg, bad memory, cpu, motherboard etc, overheating, overclocking).

 

[deskduty]

how about opening a dos prompt and type:
chkdsk /f
or
chkdsk /r