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From: wjin@cs.purdue.EDU (Woochang Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: What should I do when HD has lost clusters ?
Keywords: Hard Disk Drive, Lost Cluster
Message-ID: <10755@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 05:23:55 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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I have a 42 M Fujizu MFM hard drive and when I 'chkdsk', it complains :
11 lost clusters. convert to files ?
My friend advised to reformat the disk drive. So I backed up the whole
disk and reformatted it using 'Disk Manager' which was provided with the
hard disk. I chkdsk'ed and it was ok. But after a week, the lost clusters
happened again. But the whole thing seems to work O.K.
Do I leave it or have to do something for this ?
Could anybody tell me why this happens and what I should do this case ?
I saw an advertisement of SpinRite II and it seems to fix almost everything
in hard disks. Will it be of any help ?

Thanks, in advance.

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W. Jin