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| Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!
The question: Can an encrypted file keep one from formating a HD? I think not. But here is the situation. Have a Win 2000 rig, joined to the domain, I want to reload with XP. The former user encrypted a file and I can't take ownership because the Recovery Agent resides with the Domain Adm and he is on holidays (typical). The user is gone too. Even logging in as local adm won't let me take ownership of the file. When I try to format It gives me an error associated with a bad sector. Yes, I know it makes sence that the problem is actually a bad sector, I'm just curious. Any advice?
Thanks,
JayG
Have a Merry Christmas! | |
| azimuth40 2003-12-24, 8:33 am |
| Delete the partition with fdisk or partition magic. Let XP create a new partition and do a full format. | |
| AMDWiZARD 2003-12-24, 9:36 am |
| If you have a bad sector you wont even make it past Windows XP install. Blue screens and memory errors await you.
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| azimuth40 2003-12-24, 11:33 am |
| Sure you will if you let XP install do a long format. I just installed on a disk with a bad sector a few days ago. What will give you blue screens is a quick format which only lays down a new file structure. | |
| enforcer 2003-12-24, 1:41 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by azimuth40
Sure you will if you let XP install do a long format. I just installed on a disk with a bad sector a few days ago. What will give you blue screens is a quick format which only lays down a new file structure.
I think the point being that once you start getting bad sectors on a disk, there will be a lot more to follow fairly soon. It's usually a sign that something isn't quite right or true in the mechanism.
either that or it's taken a big bump somewhere. | |
| azimuth40 2003-12-24, 2:25 pm |
| Well that part is a given. If it took a bump then it may run for years with no problem. If the bad sector if from a slow failure then it is time to replace it now. If the drive is so old that it does not have SMART to tell you then it should be replaced anyway. However I got the impression the he was saying that a bad sector would stop an install which just isn't so if a proper format is done. |
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