June 26th 12, 10:20 AM
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Can't format second partition
John Corliss wrote:
JJ wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:
The OP mentioned BSOD's when attempting to format this partition. How
common is that?
I do computer repair as a side business and have seen a lot of failed
and failing hard drives, but I don't remember off hand if I've ever
seen BSOD's in conjunction with a bad drive. Is that fairly common, at
least outside of my circles?
It's a rare case and mostly lead to hardware fault, but not all BSOD are
hardware related.
Well, the strange thing about it is that of the four partition (2 per
drive) that are on this system, the one involved was that which only
(very) rarely was used.
As for the data which was on it, I already described in the OP how I
have it backed up:
Since I have the master's second partition backed up on the slave's
second partition, on DVD and on thumb drives,
I used a program named XXCopy to do this manually and had done it
recently before I removed the partition. As I said, I lost no data. Just
a copy of it, but I have it backed up fully regardless so that's not an
issue.
By the way, I tried using Chkdsk /f on the partition and got the
following results:
__________________________________________________ ____________________
Microsoft
Windows XP
Checking file system on D:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is partition.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
3 percent completed.
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at which point the system hung and I had to do a hard reboot.
I then tried using Chkdsk /r by booting off of my XP installation disc
(a slipstreamed with SP3 copy, which I've verified is good) but of
course, at that point the system was unable to even see the second
partition.
By the way, here's info about the drive under discussion:
Manufacturer Seagate
Model ST340014A
Size 40.0 GB
Firmware Version 8.54
Interface Parallel ATA
Standard ATA/ATAPI-6 | ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D version 2
Transfer Mode (Current / Max) Ultra DMA-100 / Ultra DMA-100
Features S.M.A.R.T./ 48bit LBA
Temperature 26 C (78 F)
Drive Letter(s) C: D:
Controller Buffer Size on Drive 2048 KB
Removable No
SMART Support Yes
You might want to use a linux LiveCD to format it, since you may
configure the number of access retries.
Worth a try. I'll give it a go. I also have some third party boot discs
(like http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd, a little dated but will work
for me I'm sure.)
Forgot to add thanks for replying and your suggestion!
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John Corliss
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