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Subject: Back Up & Running after HD problem and 2KPro @#!K up...PartI
Name:
Celstk855
Date: 7/26/2001 1:30:56 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 210.84.108.160
Message:
For what's its worth I'll tell anyone whos intersted...
I had a 10G D: partion my 15G GXP75 that was causing problems with scan disk and wouldnt format. Initially it was hanging when I was trying to backup files on another drive - making a seeking/grinding noise that would just keep going.
I tried to format it but it would hang at about 80% and the same noise would appear.
I fired up FDISK and divided the disk into 2 partions - 6 and 4G. The 6 sould format and the 4 would hang at about 20% and coloured squares were appearing on my DOS screen as the format tried to proceed. As a result - I sumised maybe the problem was at about 6.8G mark and if I could partion around it I might be able to rescue the rest of the disk.
I then repartitioned it to 6.5G, 0.6G 3.9G and forated those....strangely enough I could format all three. The problem had gone away and seems to have stayed away. Must have been the tickle that fixed the problem. So I proceeded to then repation the whole drive into;
2G=Win98
1G=SWAP
2G=Win2000Pro
4G=Programs
6G=Files
No probs so far.
anf on file
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