Bad Hard Drive (W98)

[swanside]

I have a bad hard drive on my laptop with windows 98 on it, but, due to this bad hard drive, it takes for ages to load up and is really slow, apart from getting a new hard drive, is there a disk utility program that I can run to move the required stuff to good sectors and mark the bad sectors so as not to use that part of the hDD?

Cheers
Paul

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[jdharm]

A word of advice.

Even if you could do this, it is a bad idea. If the hdd is truly going bad, then the best thing for you to do is abandon it ASAP. If the hdd is failing, moving data to good sections of the platter(s) will not prevent, or even postpone, the imminent demise of the drive.

Get your data off the drive while you still can. The best way would be to install it in a system as a slave drive and move the data to the system's primary. This will prevent the additional stress of trying to boot the OS from the damaged drive and improve your odds of recovering all your data.

Just my 2¢.

Josh
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[swanside]

Thanks, I will get a new one, mind you, when I look at this, now dont laugh, its only 995Mb??? God, I have more ram in my PC???

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