scandisk ?

[c3p0-11n]

How long should it take to scan a 4 gig HD.
I bought a used one and gave up after 2 hours.could it be because it has not bee used out or in there much?

Thanks
Bruce

[Omletteboy]

Were you doing a thorough scan? Is there stuff in there still you need. If not, you should fdisk it, recreate the partition, and format.

[pickel]

Comp USA has Norton System works 2001 on sale for $ 9.99 plus tax after rebates. Get it and use it's utilities to scan and defrag your hardrive. Have it on all my computers. well worth the money. Plus you get Norton anti-virus w/ free updates ,as well as the other utilities ( Clean sweep, disc doctor, etc.) http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[c3p0-11n]

Omlettboy. I have fdisk and format the HD and am doing a thorough scan. The thorough part seems to be the time factor. I did a new 8 gig HD to test the thorough scan time and it took 70 min. I am wondering if because it being a HD from an old system that maybe had not been used near the end it might take more time to do the scan.

pickel Thanks for the suggestion of Norton but I have Norton system works 2000 and every time I install it and let it do it thing some goes wrong with my system. Its virus protection seems to be less buggie than macafee's though. Did an up date with mc and bam system down.

I am running a scan now in the dos window. It has done the first half in about 30 min. it is the last 25% that is real slow. I wonder if that is the inner part of the disk where the surface scan is slower?

Thanks for the input now for practical learning

Bruce

[TLP]

In my experecnce if scan disk is taking a long time the drive is dammaged, slow, or just plan old and take a long time. i had a drive go for about 3 days once before i replaced it. Start it right before you go to bed and let it run over night and see what happens.

[NDC]

I agree... When you see scandisk pausing for a period of time with a disk-writing or reading sound from your hard disk, it's most likely because scandisk can't read or write correctly from the hard disk. When you do a thorough check with scandisk, scandisk performs a read-write test during the process.

[c3p0-11n]

Hi All http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Maby I did not check the fix prob in the dos window but when I ran scandisk from a dos boot I found that I had bad sectors at 74%. That is when it gets real slow. In a dos boot I had to tell scan to fix every sector. I sent it back.

Thanks for all the input and help. I live this place.

[Colt357@LA]

try spinrite first, it realign the disks inside your HD and prep your disk surface as well as scan for any nasty bad sectors.