I have a tad bit of a problem......

[Booshanky]

Whenever i try and run defrag, it gets about 60% of the way through and then it says that there are errors that need to be repaired and to run scandisk. so i run scandisk, run defrag and it happens again. i have no bad sectors etc, but every time it says that there were errors and that scandisk fixed them.

i have no programs/screensavers running when i do this.

one thing is that sometimes my hard drive makes some really wierd noises when it is doing the defrag. it will make the usual hard drive working noise, but then it will make this noise that i can only relate to being at the dentist, and getting a layer of enamel scraped off with on of those scraping tools. i really doesnt sound good. i just got the drive a couple of months ago, and it is an ibm, so i'm not sure what the huge problem is.

i think i'm gonna try running a scandisk from dos and then defraging from dos. you can do that on a microsoft winme startup disk right?

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Linksys NIC
Sound Blaster Pro
Western Digital 15 GB ata66 hdd
8x CD-Rom

[Gackt2k]

u can go to IBM's website and download a drive-fitness program, i had that defrag problem b4, then i run the fitness program and it tells e that i got bad sectors...so...just a thought..good luck

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Aopen 12x cd-rw JustLink
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Samsung 955DF 19"
Win98se / Windows 2k pro - Service Pack 2

[kid A]

Does sound like you have bad sectors to me...

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[Thermo]

If it sounds sick, it is sick! Send it back and get another one. Every drive I ever heard a strange noise come from, was ready to die.

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