john banks

I get the above in my system even log in Win 2K. When using Internet Explorer, the hard drive sounds as though it is bashing one sector about 8 times, and each time there are about 8 error logs like the above.

Tried chkdsk at startup, also used manage drives to find sector and file errors and correct them.

Don't really want to reinstall everything! Surely there is something clever enough to find the bad block, mark it as bad and get on with it?

As it is the system cannot read from the hard drive for about 20 seconds whilst this nonsense goes on, and it happens maybe every hour or so when surfing, and then windows carries on as normal without reporting any errors. Always in Internet Explorer when it happens.

Just off to ask it to repair my installation of IE and see what that shows up.

I have up to date virus pattern files and it is all clear. Drive defrags OK, but this doesn't fix the problem.

It is an IBM Deskstar 46 GB ATA 100 and only about 15% full.

Andrewza

Probably the pertinent options:
/f
Fixes errors on the disk. The disk must be locked. If chkdsk cannot lock the drive, a message appears that asks you if you want to check the drive the next time you restart the computer.

/r
Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. The disk must be locked.

john banks

Thanks, it found 12K/3 sectors that were bad. I'll look out for any more that develop.

dowser

I assume you just made a backup too?

Richard

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Lowlevel format it, thats the only way u will end up with something useable if that LL format works. It will only be a matter of time where u get a badblock on the bootblock or a critical OS file, and your OS wont boot, or render the hdd unuseable. U didnt say how old the HDD was? Feckin IBM deskstars I had 3 fail on me in one year in my work box Crashed heads on each one.

Ducati 996

Once you start getting bad blocks it's only a matter of time before the disk will fail, doesn't matter what you do, it will fail. I'd be tempted to take this as a warning, and get a backup sorted, and a replacement drive

john banks

Thanks, I do have backups. The drive is about 18 months old. The machine is used quite a lot. Will sort another hard drive out.