Need Help?

**tesco** · 02-20-2004, 03:29 PM

Originally posted by HCT@20 February 2004 - 10:25
i try that all ready but when i format its say that this disk cant be formated and when i try it again it formated fine it just took me longer than usual and when i when to install windows it freezes half way

a friend told me that its the disk thats mess up and to fix it you have to formatted using startup disk

he said that while formatting it will look for unreadeble sectors and block them or something like that

thats basically what i told you to do...you highlite the partition giving you the trouble then press d to delete it and it will have to confirm then you press c and it will create a new partition...you choose the size and it creates it then you choose to install to that partition and it will say:

format in ntfs
format in ntfs (quick)
format in fat32
format in fat32 (quick)

choose one of the non-wuick ones...

**HCT** · 02-20-2004, 03:32 PM

ok ill try that to see if it works

and thanks for the help

**Virtualbody1234** · 02-20-2004, 03:57 PM

I see you have problems with that drive.

Maybe you can save it with killdisk: http://www.killdisk.com/

If these attempts don't work then I suggest you get a new drive.

**HCT** · 02-20-2004, 06:16 PM

when i download the file from http://www.killdisk.com/ i have to unzipped it and copy the files to a floppy disk but when i go to unzipped it say they are no files to unzipped

**Virtualbody1234** · 02-20-2004, 06:48 PM

I don't know what the problem is. I just downloaded the zip file. It contains 5 files.

**HCT** · 02-20-2004, 06:54 PM

it say that the file is invalid or corrupt

did you unzipped?

**Virtualbody1234** · 02-20-2004, 07:35 PM

Yes. I unzipped it fine.

I suggest you delete it and redownload it.

**johnboy27** · 02-20-2004, 07:57 PM

Try doing a ram test,you can get a testing program here . I had similar problems with my wifes computer I built her a while back and it turned out to be bad ram. Give it a try,it couldn't hurt.