Interesting HDD problem.

[fubar121]

ok so I get a nice little error from scandisk that says

"At least one area of drive C has sustained physical damage. Although such damage might be caused by an isolated incident such as a power failure. It is often a sign of impending hardware Failure."

Now scandisk will not go past 2 percent then restarts&restarts and restart until i klik cancel. But norton diskDR. says everything is Fine?

Any Ideas on this? I figure i could format and has bios mark them as bad sectors or is the HDD destined for the trash heep?

Any help would be great.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

mmmmmmm who to trust microsoft or norton? Niether. I'd have a spare hard drive sitting aound just in case.

 

[Pythro]

Try booting to a win98 boot cd and run chkdsk....do a dir to make sure thats the right spelling.