bad cluster

[bnld2]

hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllp.
im havin some real problems here it all started with a "suwin" error......
then when i reformatted the hard drive to put on windows 2000 i then decided that i didnt want win 2k so i went to go back to win 98 and thats when i got my first "SUWIN" error during the setup of win 98. so i decided i'd start over and delete the partision and then i still got errors "SUWIN" caused by a "fault in ms-dos extention" and now after several fdisk's and reformats now a bad cluster error. can anyone help

[G Ray88]

Welcome to Sysopt bnld2, if after running scandisk on you HD and its showing that there are bad clusters, it time for a new drive the bad clusters will not go away and get any better. Then you can Install Win98 on your new drive. Good Luck :t

[bnld2]

thankyou for welcome and actually after i posted this i again repartioned the HD and formatted.. ran scandisk again and so far its making its way through the installation. only thing i did different then yesterday is i lowerd the clock speed and so far it seems to be doing it... does this mean i shouldnt jump it back up once installation is finished??

[BipolarBill]

Originally posted by bnld2
does this mean i shouldnt jump it back up once installation is finished?? How valuable is your data? As Dirty Harry would say, "Do you feel lucky?"

[bnld2]

well actually this is my test computer.. i do all my f'in around on this one so if i screw it up its not that bad.

[BipolarBill]

Then you can have at it! :D

[AllGamer]

if it's just a TEST computer i'll just Nuke it, and Repave, as well call it here at work :D