Diane,

       Unfortunately your hard drive is on the way out.  Once it starts
developing bad sectors, there is no cure and no reversal.  Suggest you
back-up everything important and then go shopping for a new hard drive.

Frank Fowlkes


Subject: [PCSOFT] Hard Disk Problem


> Dear Listers,
>
> Just when I was saying "Gee, my computer's been running really well
> lately." I have a major problem.
>
> I get a blue screen error message saying "Disk Write Error.  Unable to
> write to disk in drive c:  Data or files may be lost"
>
> When I rebooted I got a message while booting up saying "One or more of
> your drives may have developed bad sectors.  Press any key to run Disk
> Minder with surface analysis on these drives."
>
> I ran McAfee Quick Clean, Disk Minder which gave me 5 errors and tried to
> run Disk Tune, but it was unable to write to my disk so it couldn't
> continue.
>
> I also ran Scan Disk to check the surface of my C: drive, but it found no
> bad sectors and no errors.
>
> I'm even getting the blue screen while I'm writing this.
>
> I am at a loss as to what else to do.  Please help me!
>
> Diane Kroeckel

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