Recommendations needed for HD utility

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elfa

Can anyone recommend a W2K hard drive utility that can do better than CHKDSK?
My HD is slowly dying of bad sectors and I need a utility than will test each
sector with R/W's and mark them if bad.

I'm unable to install many applications, especially Service Pack 2 (or 3) for
Win2000....and I NEED to get it installed. I keep getting 'file corrupt' errors
even though I've downloaded them several times. The 'Express' installation even
refuses to install.

I'm pretty damn desperate at this point!

Any help appreciated.

elfa
 
If your hard disk really does have errors then I'd strongly recommend you
replace it. You can guarantee that if you did get all the bad sectors
marked as such, new ones would be appearing day by day until it failed
outright.

Oli
 
Actually, I am just guessing that it has bad sectors. I DL'd a HD diagnostic
from Seagate (the HD is a Seagate) and it says the HD had no errors. My real
question is why do I get 'File is corrupt' error during the extraction of
Service Pack 2? I get similiar errors when trying to install other programs.

Any ideas?

thanks

elfa
 
If you are continually getting these messages, then as Oli has stated, I'd
take a long look at your hard drive. Either your hard drive is going bad
quickly or there is some other hardware issue that you should try to find
(loose cable, etc...)

CHKDSK and the file system does mark clusters as "bad" and not allow reuse.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage Management/File System
 
If you are using a drive or controller that should be using an 80-wire IDE
cable and you're using a plain 40-wire one, you can sometimes get errors.
That's worth checking.

Oli
 
Oli Restorick [MVP]" said:
If you are using a drive or controller that should be using an 80-wire IDE
cable and you're using a plain 40-wire one, you can sometimes get errors.
That's worth checking.

Oli
Click to expand...

Nah...I'm all SCSI. No IDE at all. I'm starting to think it's memory or the
motherboard. Again, the Seagate Diagnostic (I have a Seagate Cheetah HD) tells
me alls well in hard drive land....I've run it several times with the same
indication that alls well.

As far as the Service Packs from MS are concerned, I had to order the CDs.
Pisses me off that it will cost me $20 when the DL is free but at this point I
don't have a choice.

elfa
 
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