Re: Repair Hard drive

"Doug" <doug57@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>When I format my hard drive it says it repairing clusters. This takes about
>24 hours to do this on my 60 gig hard drive. It works when its done, but is
>there a way to do this faster.
>

Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site and download the free
diagnostic utility. Run that to check out the hard drive. "Repairing
clusters" is something that should never happen on a modern hard drive
when formatting.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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