Posted by on April 06, 2002 at 01:54:29:
Hi Mike,
I think I'm having a problem with my harddrive. When I'm using the computer usually on the internet the computer will lock up. I'll try to crt alt del, press the power button, it'll only power down when you turn off the power strip. When you power it back up it goes into the scandisk mode where I have over 60 bad clusters. When the computer is about to lock up you can hear the harddrive it sounds like it is spinning, skipping and clanking. Sometimes you'll get a message not able to write to disk. Press enter and it's ok again. The computer is a compaq presario amd k-6 generic kde type 47 disk drive. What is the easiest and least expensive way to back up a harddrive. Would reformatting the harddrive or using a Norton's disk doctor fix the problem. I hope to hear from you.
thank you
dan