Scandisk running every restart with lots to fix -- Broken Hard Drive?

[mhbiglan]

I have a Win2k machine with an IBM 27 gig hard drive. The machine has crashed often as of late and when it restarts it runs scandisk. Each time it runs scandisk, it finds a number of problems with index parameters, etc. Today I switched the swap file to another hard drive and the computer hasn't crashed so far -- possibly the "bad" hard drive was messing up the swap file, crashing the computer.

So is this the standard indicator of a bad hard disk. Any good software to test this?

Thanks,

mike

 

[edfair]

This is one indicator that the drive is going. And running is the best test software you'll find. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[hotfusion]

Although if the machine crashes and it has to be forcibly shut down this would leave a lot of 'lost clusters' on the drive. Scandisk will and mmust fix this, but it is a data issue, not a physical one.
A hard drive problem would show up as bad sectors, this is a sign of an emerging problem.
I think moving the swap file to another drive has simply created a more stable system, stopping the crashes, which results in no more errors. Congratulations are in order! :-D My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.