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LH> From: Lisa Hall
LH> Subject: help with scandisk.
LH> I have been using DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1 since January 1997. I had
LH> a situation that happened last week when I went to download messages
LH> with Eudora Lite. It tried to download messages but it landed me back
LH> in DOS. I reran the program, called my ISP, and commanded Eudora to get
LH> mail. It locked up my system. I did a warm boot and everything is ok.
LH> However, when I ran scandisk there were some bad clusters on the hard
LH> drive. Should I continue to run this program to its fullest? So far I
LH> had somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 bad clusters. Should I have a
LH> technician take a look at this. I have never done a total backup
LH> before. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help me as soon as
LH> possible since I am trying to get my machine ready for the Internet
I would run Scandisk to completion, and see how it comes out. If you have an
abnormally large number of bad sectors, I would talk to a technician. if it
is high. Thirty is more then I would normally expect, but not unreasonable.
if you have Windows 95, be sure and use 32 bit utilities, not those from dos
6.22.
David Andrews
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