New HD install problem

[Muse]

Installing new Western Digital WD800JB 80 GB HD in my main rig (Rigzilla below), replacing the IBM 60 GB 60GXP (main drive), I ran Ghost Disk to Disk. I installed the WD drive as the main drive and had a problem booting into Windows 2000. I realized I should have done things differently and reinstalled the IBM 60 GB, made sure everything was OK and started doing the Disk to Disk thing again, but after some time I got this error:

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User abort 29004
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Read sector failure, result = 4, drive = 128,
sectors 18185760 to 18185768

OK

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That kicked me right out of Ghost.

I don't know for sure but I assume there was an error reading data from the source disk, the IBM 60 GB. I figure now to run either Norton Speeddisk or Win2000's Scandisk against each of the IBM 60 GB HD's partitions. Is this the thing to do? If so, Speedisk or Scandisk? Thanks.

 

[Live]

I would suggest Norton disk doctor and then speed disk.

 

[Calin]

For bad sectors, scandisk set to "check for bad sectors" is a solution. Problem : sometimes scandisk restart scanning (and I want to crush a PC that restart a scandisk when almost finished and after 5+ hours of work).

Calin

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Live
I would suggest Norton disk doctor and then speed disk.

I have Norton Systemworks 2001 installed and can do this. I have several partitions and I started going through them one by one yesterday but the 2nd one, 2 GB FAT16 partition, wouldn't optimize in Speeddisk. Windows 2000 would hang. The first time I got 15% into the operation. Next time 18%, then 20% or so. Last time I did it I ran EnditAll to shut down all but the most basic processes before running Speeddisk but it made no difference. I'm thinking now to maybe run Disk Doctor first or run Scandisk instead. Huh? Thanks for the suggestions and help.

 

[Live]

I would suggest these simple steps:

1. Run live update for your Norton system works
2. Run Norton Disk Doctor to check for problems (Or Scandisk if you find that works better)
3. Then try to optimize disks with speed disk (Or disk defragmenter which is the windows version)

Norton Disk Doctor = Windows Scandisk (Use these to search for problems)
Norton speed disk = Windows Defragmenter (Use these to optimize performance)

I personally like the Norton versions better.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Live
I would suggest these simple steps:

1. Run live update for your Norton system works
2. Run Norton Disk Doctor to check for problems (Or Scandisk if you find that works better)
3. Then try to optimize disks with speed disk (Or disk defragmenter which is the windows version)

Norton Disk Doctor = Windows Scandisk (Use these to search for problems)
Norton speed disk = Windows Defragmenter (Use these to optimize performance)

I personally like the Norton versions better.

Thanks. I just ran liveupdate (just viruse-defs was all that was updated). I think I will try Norton first. However, I'm real curious. I haven't been able to find Scandisk in Windows 2000 SP2. Where and how to you access it? Do you have to enter Scandisk on the Run dialog?

 

[Live]

Originally posted by: MuseThanks. I just ran liveupdate (just viruse-defs was all that was updated). I think I will try Norton first. However, I'm real curious. I haven't been able to find Scandisk in Windows 2000 SP2. Where and how to you access it? Do you have to enter Scandisk on the Run dialog?

It should be My computer - right click harddrive - properties - tools

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Live

Originally posted by: MuseThanks. I just ran liveupdate (just viruse-defs was all that was updated). I think I will try Norton first. However, I'm real curious. I haven't been able to find Scandisk in Windows 2000 SP2. Where and how to you access it? Do you have to enter Scandisk on the Run dialog?

It should be My computer - right click harddrive - properties - tools

This is turning into another one of those computer nightmares. Who would think that swaping out your 60 GB HD for a brand new 80 GB HD would be such a difficult thing? I ran Norton Disk Doctor on every one of my drives and there are around 10 or so. I have FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS partitions and several could not complete DD without reboots. The whole process took a couple of hours. I then went to run Speedisk on the drive I had a problem with, D:, which is 2 GB FAT16 and on my boot drive. Every time I tried Speedisk before on it, the system hung necessitating a reset after around 15 - 20% completion. This time it hung as well, so I reset and tried to run Win2000's Disk Defragmenter. I went into My Computer as indicated and before defraging I ran Win2000's own scan utility against the D: partition and it completed successfully. Interestingly, from the same applet when I went to run the defrag utility it brought up Norton Speedisk! I knew what would happen, so instead I went into Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Defragmenter. I expected to see Norton again, but it was Win2000's Disk Defragmenter and I ran it against D:. It too hung after a few minutes and I had to reset and that's where I stand. The drive looks pretty fragmented. I don't know if this is involved in my inability to do a Disk ---> Disk in Ghost, which I tried twice, actually. The first time I hadn't done anything to the Boot drive, I just ran Ghost and it seemed to work but Win2000 wouldn't boot - it went into a weird loop that seemed to repeat around twice a second when it was loading personal settings. The second time, I got the Ghost error and Ghost aborted with the message I posted at the top of the thread. I figure there's a few things I could try, but I'm in over my head now and don't know what I should do. I figure I could try Ghosting the D: partition to an image file and/or copying the data to another partition. I could then reformat the partition in FAT16 (I put data in here that I want accessible to all my OSs - Win2000, Win98SE, WinNT4), and then Ghost back the image file and if that doesn't work, copy the data from it's backup location. Comments appreciated!!