GranSalseron
December 6th 03, 10:17 PM
Go to the following site and download the boot disk for
win98 unless you already have one:
http://www.bootdisk.com
Boot up using the win98 cd and run the win98 scandisk from
the diskette. At the A:\> prompt type SCANDISK ( drive
letter ): and press enter.
Since the win98 boot disk is fat32 savvy no harm will be
done and the scan and repair should run smoothly albeit
slow if there are many bad clusters. Just make sure that
after it does the electronic scan that you tell it to do a
surface scan.
After the scandisk completes remove the diskette and boot
up normally then start your backup again.
Note: If the hard drive shows several or more clusters in
a row or columnnar that are bad replace the drive because
it is getting ready to fail.
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running WinXP Pro on a Pentium 1.6 Ghz. I
>have two WD hard drives, 40 gb each, with three
>identical partitions in each. Drive 2 is an image
>of drive 1. I routinely use the WD installation
>disk utility to make an exact copy of each partition
>on drive 1 to drive 2. (In case drive 1 crashes, I
>swap jumpers and I'm back in business.) I've done
>it with no problems several times. (All files are
>fat32.)
>
>Last night I tried it and got an error "Invalid
>Cluster Number FFFFFFF", and the process aborted.
>Tried twice more with the same result. Anyone have
>a way to fix it? Scandisk w/autofix errors failed
>to repair the bad cluster.
>
>Also, I tried the backup system using the application
>my computer/C/properties/tools/backup, but after
>running it for 45 minutes, the window said "22 hr 43
>minutes remaining."
>
>Anyhow, anyone know of a utility that would fix the
>problem?
>
>TIA,
>Ed Maier
>
>.
>
win98 unless you already have one:
http://www.bootdisk.com
Boot up using the win98 cd and run the win98 scandisk from
the diskette. At the A:\> prompt type SCANDISK ( drive
letter ): and press enter.
Since the win98 boot disk is fat32 savvy no harm will be
done and the scan and repair should run smoothly albeit
slow if there are many bad clusters. Just make sure that
after it does the electronic scan that you tell it to do a
surface scan.
After the scandisk completes remove the diskette and boot
up normally then start your backup again.
Note: If the hard drive shows several or more clusters in
a row or columnnar that are bad replace the drive because
it is getting ready to fail.
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running WinXP Pro on a Pentium 1.6 Ghz. I
>have two WD hard drives, 40 gb each, with three
>identical partitions in each. Drive 2 is an image
>of drive 1. I routinely use the WD installation
>disk utility to make an exact copy of each partition
>on drive 1 to drive 2. (In case drive 1 crashes, I
>swap jumpers and I'm back in business.) I've done
>it with no problems several times. (All files are
>fat32.)
>
>Last night I tried it and got an error "Invalid
>Cluster Number FFFFFFF", and the process aborted.
>Tried twice more with the same result. Anyone have
>a way to fix it? Scandisk w/autofix errors failed
>to repair the bad cluster.
>
>Also, I tried the backup system using the application
>my computer/C/properties/tools/backup, but after
>running it for 45 minutes, the window said "22 hr 43
>minutes remaining."
>
>Anyhow, anyone know of a utility that would fix the
>problem?
>
>TIA,
>Ed Maier
>
>.
>