As some of you know, I had major computer issues a while back but was able to get it running again. After I got my computer able to boot up into Windows XP, I ran CHKDSK on both my HD partitions (C:\ and D:\) from an ISO image boot disk with Windows XP Recovery Console on it and CHKDSK took ~58 GB of the 66 GB total space on my D:\ drive (the 2nd, non-bootable partition) and decided to mark the 58 GB as 'bad clusters' to the "Bad Clusters File".
Message seen in CHKDSK report:
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Adding 15284615 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
69529319 KB total disk space.
1964348 KB in 1367 files.
616 KB in 109 indexes.
61138460 KB in bad sectors.
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Before this happened, I had ran SeaTools Desktop diagnostics (I have a Seagate HD) more than once on the whole HD and it said every sector was physically good.
I don't recall exactly what a "bad cluster" is and why CHKDSK would want to disable these areas of the HD. But it looks like I can do a reformat on this 2nd partition in:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Manager.
I can see both partitions, and their size is what I originally specified when I put this HD in. If I highlight dirve D:\, and right click I see the "Format ..." option.
I've backed up all my files on D:\ ... so wondering if I can simpley do a reformat as described above without effecting my C:\ in any way?
Message seen in CHKDSK report:
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Adding 15284615 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
69529319 KB total disk space.
1964348 KB in 1367 files.
616 KB in 109 indexes.
61138460 KB in bad sectors.
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Before this happened, I had ran SeaTools Desktop diagnostics (I have a Seagate HD) more than once on the whole HD and it said every sector was physically good.
I don't recall exactly what a "bad cluster" is and why CHKDSK would want to disable these areas of the HD. But it looks like I can do a reformat on this 2nd partition in:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Manager.
I can see both partitions, and their size is what I originally specified when I put this HD in. If I highlight dirve D:\, and right click I see the "Format ..." option.
I've backed up all my files on D:\ ... so wondering if I can simpley do a reformat as described above without effecting my C:\ in any way?