Re: bad clusters/sectors on new laptop, chkdsk gets stuck trying to repair
- From: "M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:14:33 +0100
<techman41973@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently bought a new HP laptop with an extended warrantee.
In the past few weeks, often I would get the blue screen of death and
the system will just spontaneously crash and then I have to reboot. I
ran chkdsk and it says there are errors on the drive (no specifics).
It then tells me it couldn't repair the problems because the drive was
locked by other processes. I then entered in the command prompt
chkdsk /F/R and answered Yes for to authorize CHKDSK to run on reboot.
When CHKDSK runs on reboot everything is fine until stage 4/5 where I
get a ton of error messages, all the same
"the disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters"
I then went into windows and noticed I have only 26GB filled with 74GB
free on a 100GB hard drive. There are no other partitions. So I don't
understand why I am getting this error.
I wonder if there is something seriously wrong with the hard disk
drive.
I want to avoid sending it in to HP as I don't want to be without a
laptop for a few weeks.
Is there anything I can do to fix this problem or diagnose it further.
Thanks
The disk has had it.
The type of disks fitted to PCs theses days have a number of spare clusters
on them that are not normally used. When the disk firmware detects a
cluster that is less than reliable, it copies the cluster to one of the
spares; marks the original as bad and then remaps its intenal cluster table
to point to the new one (this is somewhat simplified, but nevertheless is
essentially what happens). Eventually, it uses up the supply of spare
clusters and can't go any further. That's when you start getting the error
messages that you are getting.
Unfortunately, you are going to have to return the thing to HP to get the
disk changed, but make sure that you copy off any files that you don't want
to lose first.
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