[Ham-Computers] HD Problems.

[KD7JYK]

I pulled the initial C drive and made the 40GB drive the primary.  I then
re-booted using a Windows98SE startup disk and used FDISK.EXE work over the
drive.  I repartitioned it into one 40GB drive, then swapped it back over to
C:\ slave and started Windows from my initial HD and used Windows to
recognize and re-format the 40GB drive.  All worked well, windows gave me
the option of a 38.5+GB format option.  After that, WIndows wanted to do a
surface scan of the drive.  At the rate it was going, I figured it would
take 16 hours.  After 12 hours, it was 10% done, so this weekend I will swap
the 40GB back into the Master HD slot and use DOS to surface scan it, it
will at least give me a sector map so I can see where the delays are coming
from.

The worst part of all this is that I have doen this exact thing on hundreds
of drives over the years when DOS was the in thing...  I forgot all the
work-arounds.

THanks for the help, Guys.

Kurt