the file to run from a floppy to run diagnostic tests of the drive. That should tell you where you stand.
Is the drive still under warranty?? A few years ago the warranty was 3 years, then most changed to 1 year.
If you you have no receipt to prove when you bought the drive, they will go by the date of manufacture that is on the nameplate. You really do not have to prove ownership.
Good luck.
Booted up my mom's comp and it said that one of the drives had bad sectors and recommended that I run scan disk. After scandisk, it said that physical damage had occurred to the drive and that I should back up the files. My mom has extremely important things on that drive so I transferred them to the secondary hard drive in my comp (no it isn't partitioned it really is a seperate drive). Now I'm just looking for a course of action. Is scandisk just giving me a bogus analysis? Any suggested course of action would be appreciated.
windows 98SE
80gb ultra ata hd that is the trouble

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