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Logical Block Addressing
By skid on April 19, 1999 in Hard drive | No Comments
My computer hangs after 10-15 min of use. I can’t even use Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart. I have to use the reset button. I’ve used this Pentium 133 for 2 years with no problems and upgraded happily to Windows 98 two months ago. In the resetting, Scandisk reported “Scandisk cannot read from the last cluster on Drive D. This cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive D may need to have Logical Block Addressing (LBA) enabled to work properly, or its disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. Data loss can occur if your LBA setting or disk partition type for this drive is mis-configured. Check your computer’s BIOS setup utility, or contact your computer manufacturer or have your computer checked by a qualified computer hardware technician. If you’re sure your drive is configured correctly, click continue to have scandisk check drive D for errors. Then Continue. If your computer LBA setting is configured improperly and Scandisk continues, scandisk may report and repair errors incorrectly. This could result in severe damage to your data or incorrectly mark section of your drive as bad. Are you sure your system is configured correctly?” When I clicked “continue” “Scandisk encountered a data error while reading cluster 131688. Scandisk will try to continue past this error. When scandisk offers to perform a surface scan on this drive, choose Yes.” My computer retailer said it could be a motherboard or memory problem! Any ideas or solutions? (more…)