 Error On Hard Drive While Installing Win 98. Cannot Install |
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 Mar 30 2008, 10:43 AM
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im trying to install windows 98 on a compaq computer that currently has no operating system.when i boot from cd it gives me the following "an error was detected while trying to read or write to your hard disk" it will not let me go any further with the install. i downloaded what i thought was the right diagnostic program from western digital for a wd400eb 40g hard drive but i cant run the program,it is set to boot from cd first. am i even close to figuring out what is wrong? |
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 Mar 30 2008, 11:13 AM
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ok i got the diagnostic to run and recieved the following
PLEASE CONTACT TECHNICAL SUPPORT - DRIVE 0 @ PORT 0X01F0 REPORTED A SMART ERROR SMART ATTRIBUTES: ID NAME VALUE THRESH WORST 1 RAW READ ERROR RATE 51 51 51 3 SPIN UP TIME 93 21 91 4 START/STOP COUNT 96 40 96 5 RE-ALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 199 140 199 7 SEEK ERROR RATE 200 51 200 9 POWER-ON HOURS COUNT 84 0 84 10 SPIN RETRY COUNT 100 51 100 11 DRIVE CALIBRATION RETRY COUNT 100 51 100 12 DRIVE POWER CYCLE COUNT 96 0 96 196 RELOCATION EVENT COUNT 198 0 198 197 CURRENT PENDING SECTOR COUNT 200 0 192 198 OFFLINE UNCORRECTABLE SECTOR COUNT 200 0 200 199 ULTRADMA CRC ERROR RATE 200 0 253 200 MULTI ZONE ERROR RATE 200 51 200 WARNING! ONE OR MORE CURRENT OR WORST CASE ATTRIBUTES ARE BELOW THRESHOLD HIT ANY KEY TO CONTINUE |
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Mar 30 2008, 11:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-March 08 Member No.: 198,725 |
i seemed to get it to start the setup but now it says
"scandisk encountered a data error while reading the fat entry for cluster 15209" this error prevents scandisk from fixing this drive |
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Mar 30 2008, 01:01 PM
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 Computer Masochist Group: Moderator Posts: 8,908 Joined: 27-January 07 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 108,618 |
You have a bad hard drive
-------------------- Mark
 why won't my laptop work? Having grandkids is God's way of giving you a 2nd chance because you were too busy working your butt off the 1st time around Avatar by Handplane |
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Mar 30 2008, 01:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 25-March 08 Member No.: 198,725 |
than you
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