Re: Can't reinstall XP because of bad sectors on disk.
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 07/13/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:37:38 +0100
Allen wrote:
>I can not load XP because there are bad sectors on the
>disk where the prior XP install was. The installation
>hangs while checking for prior versions of Windows and the
>disk heads just rattle over the bad sectors.
>How do I get around this to load XP in a good area of the
>disk?
>
>Booting in MS DOS works fine and I can read the disk
>without any problems.
>From a MSDOS boot, eg a Win98 startup floppy you can run the DOS
SCANDISK to check a FAT 32 drive - it will find bad sectors and mark
them as such, at hardware level, so that nothing will then try to use
them
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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