From: Lisa Hall 
Subject: Re: help with scandisk.
Hi David and everyone,
I had a technician looked at my computer this past Monday.  He indicated
to me that the bad sectors are near the boot area of the hard drive.  He
suggested that I should back up my important information on floppies and
run scandisk and defrag on a regular basis.  He stated that my drive could
last anywhere from 3 to 6 months.  He stated to start preparing now before
it goes out.  Should I consider purchasing a hard drive before it goes
out.  This is a 720mb hard drive.  It is on a 486 mhz Packard Bell
computer with 16mb of RAM.  Anybody haveany thoughts?  Look forward to
receiving input. 
lisa hall
lisahall@texas.net
San Antonio, Texas
On 1 Oct 1997, David Andrews wrote:
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>  LH> From: Lisa Hall 
>  LH> Subject: help with scandisk.
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>  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 
et
>  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
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> 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.
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> if you have Windows 95, be sure and use 32 bit utilities, not those from 
dos 6.22.
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> David Andrews
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