I am running Windows 98SE , Norton Antivirus V 5.0, Pentium 200 Mhz processor, Atrend Socket 7 Motherboard , 64 Mb Ram,Seagate 4Gb Main HDD, Maxtor 3Gb Storage HDD, my problem is i have had to low levelformat and zero fill the Main dribve twice in the last week due to bad sectors , my system seems to develop them over night , there is no particular set thing to make the system hang , i can be working away on or off the internet and this happens , my keyboard does not respond , my mouse does notrespond and the HDD light on the box is not on , the only way i can get out of this situation is to manually shut down and restart , but when I do that it not only wants to run scan disk ( like it should ) but it also wants to do a surface scan also, then when it has done that it runs “scanreg” (which sugests to me that it keeps droping system files).Once back up and running i find i have to reinstall al non windows programs (including my internal modem)i recently had the seagate installed because i was told that the Maxtor had bad sectors on it which could not be removed and it turned out that the Cache ram was conflicting with my EDO ram whic was causing the system to hang during instalation of windows,
1.Is it possible for the two HDD to be conflicting ?
2. Is the bad sectors causing the system to hang?
3. Is it the system hanging and being unable to shut it down properly causing the bad sectors?
4. Can you format a drive too many times ?
5. something totally different ?
this is drivng me nuts , any information to the soultion would be greatly appreciated .
Thanks in advance ,
Steve
