How can I fix a clustered drive?

jckinnick

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Ive tried a disk check but that didnt work is there anything else i can do besides replacing the drive? I think this happened when i deleted my guest account on Windows XP.
 
What is a "clustered drive"? I know hard drives do have data clusters... At least that's they used to call them
 
Deleting a guest account should not damage a drive.

When you ran chkdsk did you put /r after it. That should stop any bad clusters from being used by the OS. Corruption can also cause the diagnostics to see an error on the surface of the drive and report it as a bad cluster or block. try running chkdsk /r from the command prompt. Click on Start, Run, type cmd and then type chkdsk /r (include the gap) at the prompt, hit Enter and then answer "yes" and reboot.

If it is just corruption then running a "Repair" install should fix it.

If still no success then run the manufacturers diagnostics:

Identify the make of your hard drive and then use one of the links below to get the manufacturers diagnostic for ISO CD. Burn the image file to a CD, boot the PC with the disc in the drive and run the diagnostics. You first need to set the CD drive to 1st in the boot order in the Bios setup.

If you do not have an image burner use this free software to make the CD.

http://www.isoimageburner.com/


ExcelStor: http://www.excelstor.com/eng/support.php?sub_id=3

Hitachi/IBM: http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/

Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/downloads/support_in_es.html

Toshiba Fujitsu: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=SoftwareUtilities#diagnostic

Seagate, Maxtor & Quantum:http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads

Western Digital:http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=en
 
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