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Disk Write Error - Unable to write to disk in drive C: 1

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ColinC77

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My friend has a Win98SE Gateway Select PC with an AMD 650 processor, 384 MB ram a DVD & a burner. Because we had 2 digital cameras to D/L from, we got a Lexar Media USB 2.0 card reader and a Belkin USB 2.0 PCI card. After installing the PCI card, we connected the card reader & D/L pictures from both xD & Smartmedia cards. Everything seemed ok & we left the defrag running after disabling the task scheduler, the Norton AV & the Black Ice firewall. Several hours later we returned to find the defrag had stopped after 30% had been reorganized along with an error message stating that the disk could not be accessed for the defrag procedure. Then a BSOD appeared with the message "Disk write error - Cannot write to disk in drive C:. I shut down & rebooted & Scandisk appeared with the request to do a hard drive scan to check for errors. Ahter doing this, the BSOD comes up as soon as Windows starts & now Scandisk will not complete. Any suggestions? Could this be caused by the USB 2.0 PCI card or by the Reader? I really hate to think this is a hard drive failure. B-)
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Colinc77
 
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Go to the manufacturer's website and download their diagnostic software.

Run all the tests except the destructive low-level format test.

If the diagnostic test says the disk is bad, it is bad. You could of course remove all the new hardware you installed and see if it helps, but I doubt it will. The disk however may benefit if the diagnostic routine has a non-destructive recertification test, and most do. As a guess, you are writing to areas of the disk that have not previously been written to, and the disk has experienced thermal drift. The recertification process should be able to correct for this.

 
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