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Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition
to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie |
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William B. Lurie wrote:
Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Continuing on with the same problem, I made the entire 80GB drive just one partition, containing the OS. Running chkdsk/r, it found on corrupted attribute, which it deleted, and then in a later stage, inserted it......no bad clusters, but after running all 5 stages of chkdsk, it closed with the message "Insufficient disk space to correct bitmap". Partition Magic shows the drive to be 78GB, used 8GB, unallocated 68GB, and I'd appreciate knowing what it means be "Insufficient Disk Space". Thank you. Bill |
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Bet you that the drive in question is formatted as fat32, which has a 4 gig
limit for a single file. The repairs may be trying to create a larger file, hence the error message. The O/S seems to treat a single oversize file the same as an actual lack of drive space. At least as far as I have seen, it throws up a similar/same error message for both! NTFS is ALWAYS better! -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew as much as you thought you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie |
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Richard Urban wrote:
Bet you that the drive in question is formatted as fat32, which has a 4 gig limit for a single file. The repairs may be trying to create a larger file, hence the error message. The O/S seems to treat a single oversize file the same as an actual lack of drive space. At least as far as I have seen, it throws up a similar/same error message for both! NTFS is ALWAYS better! Nope, you lose that bet, Richard. It's XP Pro, has been NTFS since it was created. I'll do some more sperimenting. Bill |
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On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:57:49 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:
(although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), Bill, I think this is a concern that deserves a closer look. Problem drives can do very weird things. Better to get a "good" drive than to try troubleshooting problems that are due to a drive in poor condition. That kind of troubleshooting is always a lose/lose proposition. Replace the drive. If the problem continues, then troubleshoot. I am not a hardware expert. The terminology below may be wrong as may be my understanding of how hard drives work. It's the general "gist" from what I've read and what I've been taught. A small number of bad clusters is considered normal. With older hardware, one wasn't concerned unless this number started to grow steadily over time. Bad clusters were flagged as they occurred and life moved on. Again, no concern unless that number of bad clusters continued to grow. On the other hand, "newer" hard drives have a built in "slush fund" of spare clusters. (Quotes around "newer" since this has been around for several years now.) These are intended to be used behind the scenes for replacing an occasional bad cluster. In most cases the allotment is sufficient for the life of the drive and the end user doesn't even realize that slush fund existed. However, when the end user sees bad clusters in disk tools results that indicates there already has been an accumulation of bad clusters. The slush fund is used up. This is why ,nowadays, you so often see the quick advice to "replace the drive" when bad clusters are mentioned. Another point: You're using Seagate tools on a Western Digital drive. Shouldn't be a problem but be aware that they may misreport specialty areas of the drive that were created by a different drive manufacturer (such as a slush area). Chkdsk is not as refined of a tool as these manufacturer utilities. When it is seeing bad clusters, it is most likely the regular old fashioned kind - those located in the area of the drive that the average user would be concerned about. So if just Seagate is reporting a bad cluster - it may be looking in areas that normally aren't a concern for everyday use. If Seagate *and* chkdsk are reporting a bad cluster, contact the manufacturer for a replacement. Since it's fresh from stock, it is still under warranty. Hard drives are "cheap" right now. Lemons and less than perfect drives seem to make it out the door and onto the shelf more often than they used to. One has to stay more on guard for bad units but luckily most manufacturers are quick to replace them with usable drives. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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"William B. Lurie" wrote:
Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Western Digital drive? You should be using Western Digital's diagnostic utilities and not Seagate's. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Ron Martell wrote:
"William B. Lurie" wrote: Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Western Digital drive? You should be using Western Digital's diagnostic utilities and not Seagate's. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada You're right, Ron, but the WD Data Lifeguard Tools that came with their drives doesn't seem to give me any way to check the drives. So I use what I have until they answer my request. It says it has Diagnostics but I haven't found them. -- William B. Lurie |
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... William B. Lurie wrote: Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Continuing on with the same problem, I made the entire 80GB drive just one partition, containing the OS. Running chkdsk/r, it found on corrupted attribute, which it deleted, and then in a later stage, inserted it......no bad clusters, but after running all 5 stages of chkdsk, it closed with the message "Insufficient disk space to correct bitmap". Partition Magic shows the drive to be 78GB, used 8GB, unallocated 68GB, and I'd appreciate knowing what it means be "Insufficient Disk Space". Thank you. Bill Seems that you've answered you space question right here. You have an 8 Gb partition that you're using, which you said was the amount the system was filling before. So there's no room for anything more. And you've got 68Gb that's unallocated, which means there's no partition created there. You need to expand your 8 Gb partition to whatever size you want, then partition the rest as you see fit. |
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D.Currie wrote:
"William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... William B. Lurie wrote: Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Continuing on with the same problem, I made the entire 80GB drive just one partition, containing the OS. Running chkdsk/r, it found on corrupted attribute, which it deleted, and then in a later stage, inserted it......no bad clusters, but after running all 5 stages of chkdsk, it closed with the message "Insufficient disk space to correct bitmap". Partition Magic shows the drive to be 78GB, used 8GB, unallocated 68GB, and I'd appreciate knowing what it means be "Insufficient Disk Space". Thank you. Bill Seems that you've answered you space question right here. You have an 8 Gb partition that you're using, which you said was the amount the system was filling before. So there's no room for anything more. And you've got 68Gb that's unallocated, which means there's no partition created there. You need to expand your 8 Gb partition to whatever size you want, then partition the rest as you see fit. No, that's not it, Mr. C...... I might not have expressed it right. I have no situation where I have an 8 GB partition filled with 8 GB of info and no unused portion. I got that error message when I had a 13GB partition with 8 GB of info, 5 GB unused, and it was telling me there was insufficient space to correct the bitmap. I'm taking steps to run Western Digital diagnostics on WD drives as suggested. WBL |
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Sharon, as usual, you hit the nail on th head, and pointed
me toward what I believe is a happy solution to my faulty hard drive problems. There is still one small anomaly. Despite their incomplete explanation as to how to us their Data Lifeguard Tools, which had inhibited me from testing W-D drives with W-D software, I managed to add what was needed and now I have tested all my drives with quite happy results. A drive which showed 10 contiguous bad sectors when tested with Seagate's SeaTools.......showed *none* when tested with W-D's tools, and none when subsequently checked with chkdsk/r . The mystery, which I'm willing to remain as such, is whether W-D's Tools fixed (or marked as unusable) the sectors which Seagate reported, or whether Seagate's SeaTools just will not give believable results for W-D drives. Thanks for the sage advice, and thanks for forcing me to use the right tools for the task. I hope other readers will keep these things in mind as well. Bill Lurie Sharon F. wrote: Bill, I think this is a concern that deserves a closer look. Problem drives can do very weird things. Better to get a "good" drive than to try troubleshooting problems that are due to a drive in poor condition. That kind of troubleshooting is always a lose/lose proposition. Replace the drive. If the problem continues, then troubleshoot. I am not a hardware expert. The terminology below may be wrong as may be my understanding of how hard drives work. It's the general "gist" from what I've read and what I've been taught. A small number of bad clusters is considered normal. With older hardware, one wasn't concerned unless this number started to grow steadily over time. Bad clusters were flagged as they occurred and life moved on. Again, no concern unless that number of bad clusters continued to grow. On the other hand, "newer" hard drives have a built in "slush fund" of spare clusters. (Quotes around "newer" since this has been around for several years now.) These are intended to be used behind the scenes for replacing an occasional bad cluster. In most cases the allotment is sufficient for the life of the drive and the end user doesn't even realize that slush fund existed. However, when the end user sees bad clusters in disk tools results that indicates there already has been an accumulation of bad clusters. The slush fund is used up. This is why ,nowadays, you so often see the quick advice to "replace the drive" when bad clusters are mentioned. Another point: You're using Seagate tools on a Western Digital drive. Shouldn't be a problem but be aware that they may misreport specialty areas of the drive that were created by a different drive manufacturer (such as a slush area). Chkdsk is not as refined of a tool as these manufacturer utilities. When it is seeing bad clusters, it is most likely the regular old fashioned kind - those located in the area of the drive that the average user would be concerned about. So if just Seagate is reporting a bad cluster - it may be looking in areas that normally aren't a concern for everyday use. If Seagate *and* chkdsk are reporting a bad cluster, contact the manufacturer for a replacement. Since it's fresh from stock, it is still under warranty. Hard drives are "cheap" right now. Lemons and less than perfect drives seem to make it out the door and onto the shelf more often than they used to. One has to stay more on guard for bad units but luckily most manufacturers are quick to replace them with usable drives. -- William B. Lurie |
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Running Seatools on a W.D. drive is like running a G.M. diagnostic program on
a Ford. In 20 years you haven't really learned anything - have you? I suggest you go back to a shoe box and 3x5 index cards, as a computer is too complicated for you to handle! Maybe you will be wanting to change the statement you made a few months ago about how you have 20 years experience with computers. As a plain user, maybe. As a computer enthusiast - NO WAY! "William B. Lurie" wrote: Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie |
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:44:51 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:
The mystery, which I'm willing to remain as such, is whether W-D's Tools fixed (or marked as unusable) the sectors which Seagate reported, or whether Seagate's SeaTools just will not give believable results for W-D drives. Hi, Bill. It's possible that the Seagate tools are reporting the bad sectors in the "slush fund." An accurate report but one that is not telling the whole story. I would expect that the WD tools will speak up when that special allowance is used up and it's time to alert the user. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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Sharon F wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:44:51 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote: The mystery, which I'm willing to remain as such, is whether W-D's Tools fixed (or marked as unusable) the sectors which Seagate reported, or whether Seagate's SeaTools just will not give believable results for W-D drives. Hi, Bill. It's possible that the Seagate tools are reporting the bad sectors in the "slush fund." An accurate report but one that is not telling the whole story. I would expect that the WD tools will speak up when that special allowance is used up and it's time to alert the user. Right. And except for the useless and boring kibitzers, I've enjoyed the help I always get here. Thanks again, Sharon. Bill Lurie |
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"William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... D.Currie wrote: "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... William B. Lurie wrote: Hard drive developed bad sectors. Copied master partition to new 80GB drive. Set Master partition to 13GB size. Full system occupying 8GB, leaving 5 GB. Ran Seagate SeaTools diagnostics, and it failed "File Structure Test" Their recommendation: do Defrag and Chkdsk.....which I did, including chkdsk/r. At end of chkdsk, after it deleted 5 corrupt attribute records, and inserted 5 news ones, and replaced bad clusters in \windows\regist~2\{etcetera, chkdsk finished with a message which flashed by, faster than I could record, something about "insufficient space ----+?+x bitmap" and then rebooted. I don't mind it having found things to fix (although I'm not all that enthusiastic about bad clusters on a fresh-from-stock WD drive), but what's this "insufficient space" business, and what do I do next? Bill Lurie Continuing on with the same problem, I made the entire 80GB drive just one partition, containing the OS. Running chkdsk/r, it found on corrupted attribute, which it deleted, and then in a later stage, inserted it......no bad clusters, but after running all 5 stages of chkdsk, it closed with the message "Insufficient disk space to correct bitmap". Partition Magic shows the drive to be 78GB, used 8GB, unallocated 68GB, and I'd appreciate knowing what it means be "Insufficient Disk Space". Thank you. Bill Seems that you've answered you space question right here. You have an 8 Gb partition that you're using, which you said was the amount the system was filling before. So there's no room for anything more. And you've got 68Gb that's unallocated, which means there's no partition created there. You need to expand your 8 Gb partition to whatever size you want, then partition the rest as you see fit. No, that's not it, Mr. C...... I might not have expressed it right. I have no situation where I have an 8 GB partition filled with 8 GB of info and no unused portion. I got that error message when I had a 13GB partition with 8 GB of info, 5 GB unused, and it was telling me there was insufficient space to correct the bitmap. I'm taking steps to run Western Digital diagnostics on WD drives as suggested. WBL In that case, Partition Magic is reporting it incorrectly, unless you somehow mistyped the 68 unallocated and 8 used as you wrote above. Does Windows report it differently? If so, there's something amiss, as they should be reading the drive the same way. If it was me, I'd be a bit wary of the drive as it is. Might be best off copying the data off, removing the partitions, creating partitions and formatting from within Windows and then copying your data back again. |
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