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What is bad cluster
Your computer stores the data on your hard drive in units called =
clusters. =20 Each cluster holds a minimum of 4 kilobytes of data. You can think of = your =20 hard drive as a freezer filled with ice cube trays. The ice cube trays = are clusters, =20 and the ice cubes are the sectors which make up each cluster.=20 CheckDisk checks your clusters for errors. If it finds even one bad = sector in a cluster, =20 it marks the entire cluster as unusable. It can't read any of the data = on the cluster, =20 and it can't write any data to the cluster.=20 To try and repair this problem, open MY COMPUTER, right-click on your = drive and select Properties Tools Error-Checking Check Now and place = checkmarks in both Check Disk Options, click START and then reboot your computer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----------------------------- --=20 Nicholas "Diaharne" wrote in message: =20 ... | Our computer is coming up with errors relating to old=20 | power point files with the error Bad Cluster. What does=20 | bad cluster mean? |
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