sector not found reading drive c

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I am getting a "sector not found reading drive c" error. The drive is only a
few months old and used Western Digitals utility to test it and found no
errors. Scan disk found and corrected a few errors. Thought I would try sys
c: from a boot disk but it gave me the following error: "could not copy
command.com to target drive" I can still boot to a dos prompt and all my
files appear to be intact so I was thinking about re-installing Windows98
2nd over the top as my next step. Could this possibly work or any other
suggestions? I thought maybe fdisk/mbr but I don't think thats the problem
if I can still see everything in dos?

Thanks,
GB
 
Personaly when I see activity like this from a HDD the first thing that
comes to mind is virus, the second is HDD failure, if you do not have a real
need for the data on the drive I would use fdisk to delete all partitions,
then reboot, fdisk again and create your partitons, follow the prompts and
reboot.

If you have to have the data then take it to a shop and pay them to retrieve
what you need (this may or may not be possible), then slick the drive and
start over.

if the hardrive is bad then you may see fdisk have a problem verifying drive
integrity and/or format may have problems during the format so read the
summary at the end of format and observe fdisk all the way through the
verify integrity portion (it will verify twice).
 
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