Defrag/Hard Disk problem:

John:

Take a look at the following link for information on "SpinRite":

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm

If anything will fix the error, SpinRite can.

Your last resort is to make a full backup (if you can), make a Win95a boot disk with scandisk, etc. on it,  reformat the drive, and reinstall the operating system.  Unless you are comfortable with this though, I would not recommend it.

Also worth mentioning is that you'll need to keep an eye on that problem.  Hard drives will get more bad sectors over the years, but very often this indicates an impending drive failure.  If you continue to get bad sectors on intermittent scans, I would replace that drive ASAP.

Hope this helps.

Jon Persinger

> > When I run windows 95 defrag, it says the disk has errors and to run
> > scandisk.
> > Then scandisk (with thorough option) cannot find any problems.
> > The microsoft knowledge base has an article on this and says to make
> > changes to scandisk.ini and run scandisk from native dos,
> > however this has the same result.
> >
> > I have tried a number of freeware scanning and defragging programs,
> > but they either dont detect an error or they lockup the system
> > (when they reach the suspect spot on the disk) and give the
> > dreaded blue screen of death.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind bad sectors being marked so, but I need to be able to use
> > the rest of the disk without these problems. Any Ideas?
> >
> > John Hilton



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