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Posted by Folkert Rienstra on August 1, 2007, 6:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hey, another Bozo, that I appear to have overlooked.
> Sounds like the drive is bad. Get it replaced.
> "the disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters" has nothing
> to do with the amount of free space you see available.
Of course it does.
> Drives are made with the expectation that some sectors will be/will become
> bad, and extra space is available on the drive to map those sectors to when
> they go.
Fully transparant and invisible to the OS.
> When you run out of the extra space, you lose disk capacity.
No you don't. You just get write errors and nothing further happens.
And that only when all sectors in the partition free space are all marked
as a pending bad sector.
Else any write to the free space by the OS just goes unchecked, without a-
ny resulting error. And you loose (partition) capacity anyway when the OS
sets aside bad sectors (per cluster) in the file system administration and
replaces them with free clusters, whether the drive is out of spares, or not.
And even someone as stupid as Bozo should be able to recognize that the used
and free space add up to the full drive capacity without any loss of capacity.
alt.comp.hardware, comp.sys.laptops, full of Bozos.
>
> I haven't dealt with HP for a repair issue in a long time - perhaps they can
> send you and exchange drive rather than your having to return the whole
> laptop. Swapping out drives is a pretty easy, user-doable task.
>
> Val
>
> I recently bought a new HP laptop with an extended warrantee.
> In the past few weeks, often I would get the blue screen of death and
> the system will just spontaneously crash and then I have to reboot. I
> ran chkdsk and it says there are errors on the drive (no specifics).
> It then tells me it couldn't repair the problems because the drive was
> locked by other processes. I then entered in the command prompt
> chkdsk /F/R and answered Yes for to authorize CHKDSK to run on reboot.
> When CHKDSK runs on reboot everything is fine until stage 4/5 where I
> get a ton of error messages, all the same
> "the disk does not have enough space to replace bad clusters"
> I then went into windows and noticed I have only 26GB filled with 74GB
> free on a 100GB hard drive. There are no other partitions. So I don't
> understand why I am getting this error.
> I wonder if there is something seriously wrong with the hard disk
> drive.
> I want to avoid sending it in to HP as I don't want to be without a
> laptop for a few weeks.
> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem or diagnose it further.
> Thanks
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