"DJS0302" wrote in message
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This pertains to my Windows 95 machine which I still use. Last Fall I was
booting the computer and it beeped and said there were possible errors on
the
disk and I had to run a thorough scan to check the drive. It found one
bad
sector. I rebooted the computer and it ran scandisk again and found
another
bad sector. It was okay until this Spring when it found another bad
sector.
Now yesterday and today it found two more bad sectors.
I've had the computer for seven years and have always made it a habit to
run a
thorough scandisk and a defrag on a regular basis. I have a few
questions.
First, based on your experience and the fact that scandisk is only finding
one
or two errors at a time how much longer do you think the drive is going to
last?
it's impossible to predict how long the drive will last...
the best thing to do would be to just replace it
if you don't replace the drive you may want to backup all your data and try
lo-level formattting the
drive
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