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Does MS scandisk work really well, or can it leave bad spots on the
harddrive that it didn't find?

Is there other software that runs under dos that is better than, or
different from, scandisk, that might find problem areas that scandisk
didn't find??

I have run scandisk for about 30 passes, and the last errors I found
were 11 or 12 passes ago.

OTOH, when I try to reinstall Windows, it gets to a certain point (10%%
of files copied) and the computer freezes every time. At 10%%, which
is somewhere between 10 and 11 per cent each time, but maybe at
exactly the same point. By freeze, I mean that the light on the
CD-Rom goes out, and the hard drive light flickers for a while, then
stays on all the time without flickering, and eventually the hard
drive makes noise, buzzing for 3 seconds, silent for 3 seconds (repeat
four times. Then a 6 second pause and it starts again.)

Scandisk works - but it is limited to what it can do in the physical world.
There could be multiple problems going on - chipset, etc. that it cannot
overcome. From your description it sounds like the HDD is done for -
"buzzing" & "clicking" are generally evidence of impending doom.

Pat

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:04:38 -0800, "Pat [MSFT]"
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Hmm. Not happy to hear that but OK. Thanks