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question about scandisk

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bockchow

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ok i got a harddrive shipped to me and i wanted to make sure everything was cool. i got it formated with fat32 useing a win98 bootdisk and now i'm running scandisk in dos off the same disk but it's been like 24 hours already and it's only 60% done. it's a 1ghz athalon system with 1gb of ram. the HDD is a maxtor 120gb with 8mb cache. i haven't done this for a long time but don't remember it takeing two days for a 120gb drive.
 
is your hard drive the same speed as that other one to which you refer? i also suppose you did the surface scan (or was it surface and something else?)?
 
A surface scan on a 120Gb drive will take a long time. Why not just use Maxtors own HDD diagnostic utility to check the fitness of the drive?
 
i tried maxblast first but it wouldn't do anyhting and then when i formated it with ntfs it said that it couldn't do anyhting with ntfs. i tried to reformat it with the maxtor software and it would reformat for all of 20 secounds then say it was done and reboot. i got it to format to fat32 with an old win 98 boot disk i had around and after that i thought i'd run it thru with scandisk, that was 24 hours ago and thats the reason behind my question.
 
Oh right...I can't speak for Maxtor drives but I know my WD drives come with a utility which let me perform all sorts of diagnostic checks on the media and the drive itself.
 
ya so did ibm drives. maxtors maxblast seams to be a bit lacking.and a bit quircky too. i've even tried muliple versions of it with varied but still unhelpful results.
 
You mentioned ntfs as a format that you did. I don't believe the 98 disk really reads it even after a reformat with the 98 disk without first doing a low-level format or use of a wipe disk utility. I run a 1gig celery and my low-level format only took about 8 hours. Surface scan is even less. If you're going to install XP, I'd suggest that you abort the whatever it's doing and boot from the XP CD. If you want to you can do a scandisk with surface scan and ntfs format in less time than it's going to take to finish what's going now. (at least if it hasn't already finished)😕
 

bockchow, you are running scandisk from DOS (the Win98 bootdisk) right? That means the drive
is being accessed in PIO mode, because the bootdisk has no UDMA drivers to load to access the
drive any faster. Also, it doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, the limiting factor here is how fast
scandisk can access each sector of the drive in turn. And there are a lot of sectors on a 120GB
drive.

BTW I think The utility you want is PowerMax, not MaxBlast

They seem to have seperate downloads for some of the utilities, probably because most people
don't need to have the full diagnostic suite included with their drive.

I think there is also some confusion on the difference between wiping a disk, zeroing a disk, and running
a low level format.
 
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