DJW wrote:

> Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong?
>
> I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on
> ebay.
> I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned
> it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made
> from a download from their site.

> may be damaged. It ran scan disk I guess in the blue screen DOS mode
> and when it gets to cluster 121,289 about of a total clusters or
> 1,048,864 it slows to a ridiculous crawl. And starts to say that
> portion of the disk is bad and locks out for use that section and I
> guess moves the data to a new area of the disk. However this is
> continuing on cluster by cluster and I ran it all night maybe 15 hours
> and it got to cluster 150,000 (something) and is still locking out the
> areas as bad.

Is this running scandisk in file structure checking mode or surface
scan mode? (With surface scan you get a screenful of blocks, with file
structure checking its a blue screen with progress bar.)

If what youre saying is happening in surface scan, the discs stuffed.
If its happening during file check, I'd format the disc then get
scandisk to surface scan it.

I'm assuming that if youve got 2 discs on one IDE cable you've got one
set to master and the other to slave.


NT