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very slow harddrive formating

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inusrat

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Feb 28, 2004
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Hi,

My computer was running very slow. It is a p4, with 40 G hardrive and 520 memory. I did chkdsk ..it said few sectors are unreadble.

File Record segment 4688 is unreadable
File Record segment 4688 is unreadable
File Record segment 4689 is unreadable
File Record segment 4690 is unreadable
File Record segment 4691 is unreadable


I dedided to reformat the hard drive. It is even reformating it very slow, in 2 hours it has formmated only 2%. I don't know what could be wrong. Is it the hard drive that causing it to format so slow or something else might be wrong?

Thanks

 
Sounds like your hard drive might be dying. Download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility from their website moste have one), and check it out. If its bad, and still in warranty, get a replacement.
 
for some odd reasons (sometimes ppl boot and format with a 98 boot disk for large fat32 partitioning ability) - you may need to load smartdrv for disk caching in autoexec.bat
Put the file smartdrv on the Boot floppy and edit the autoexec file to read
LH A:\smartdrv.exe

though - i must say with those errors, I'd definitely run the Manu. diag util like wolluf says - first....some oem's have it on their restore cds....and even a write-zeros to disk utility included.

make sure chkdsk runs before format, as win98 usually runs scandisk to check for errors.
If your booting from an XP cdrom and running setup from there..then concentrate on the Manu. util, and forget the 98 stuff

TT4U

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Thanks for your messages. While I was formating the hard drive,and 40% was done, w2k server quit formatting and I got this message on the screen.

"Setup was unable to format the partion. The disk may be damaged. Make sure the drive is swithched on and properly
connected. If the disk is SCSI make sure your SCSI devives are properly terminated."

I guess it confirms that something is wrong with the hard drive, right? or it perhaps it not properly connected.


Thanks

 
Well - presume you've checked connections!

And have you tried manufacturer's diagnostic tool?

 
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