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IS THIS A BAD HARDDRIVE

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by bigdevo208 Sep 4, 2001 last reply Sep 5, 2001

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EVERY WEEK OR SO,THIS FRIEND OF MINE KEEPS CALLING ME AND TELLING ME TO LOOK AT HIS COMPUTER. WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING IS, IT KEEPS LOSING ITS PARTITIONS.ONCE A WEEK FOR ABOUT 1 MONTH I HAVE TO GO OVER AND REPARTITION, FORMAT AND INSTALL AND OS. THANKYOU FOR YOUR HELP...........

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by pauly4190 Sep 4, 2001

When you say, "it keeps losing its partitions", what do you mean exactly? It's not booting into the OS? Are you using Fdisk and not seeing any partitions? More info is needed there.

That said, the hard disk is suspect. If it's a viable optionyou'll want to replace it, then wait and see. In the mean time you need to verify that the friend isn't messing with something himself, like say formatting from windows explorer or something.

by bigdevo208 Sep 4, 2001

i'm going to fdisk and not seeing any partitions. HOW DOES A PERSON DELETE A PARTITION FROM WITHIN WINDOWS?

by netuser Sep 4, 2001

The drive is defective. Your friend needs a new drive. You save a lot of your time too.

by bigdevo208 Sep 5, 2001

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by csmith Sep 4, 2001

I assume you have zero filled the hard drive, before you have partitioned, then formatted, the HD, to insure there is not some Track 0 virus on the drive.
This regular occurance also points to the power supply as a possible cause, because you did not mention the hard drive having bad sectors, when you format it.
Do you have extra hard drives to swap out with your friend?
I am suspicious that this problem is NOT the hard drive.
Also check the BIOS.
Regards, Chris