On 24 Feb 00 at 22:51, karen lewellen wrote:
Karen, I hope others here will correct me if I am wrong,
but as I see it the most likely causes are:
Either: Usually when a IDE drive shows lots of bad sectors, it is an
early warning about forthcoming sudden death. Backup your valuable
data right now if you can. Do this in any case!
Or: Bad sector translation. When you run Norton disk doctor surface
scan, if sector translation is not working, when Disk Doctor passes
the 1024th cylinder, it will say that all of the remaining sectors
and clusters are bad. This will happen about 500 MB to 600 MB into
the hard drive. If this is the case, you will need to backup all your
data, or at least make sure you don't write new data to your disk
until you can. When you have managed to back up your data, you will
need to reinstall the hard drive making sure CMOS (BIOS) is set to
use LBA (Logical Bloc Addressing) translation. LBA is needed to
support drives larger than 528MB. Then with this new setup you must
reparation (FDISK) and format before you can install OS and restore
your other data from backup. If your BIOS doesn't support LBA the
solution is either a Bios upgrade, or a drive overlay software that
can handle the translation. Another alternative is a new disk
controller with a onboard Bios that supports LBA.
Hope I got this right, I am not quite awake yet...
All the best,
Bjorn
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