Bad cluster

[robhill]

I have a T42p and came back from lunch and had a black screen. It would not boot to the hard drive. I swapped hard drives and the computer still functioned.

Knowing it was a hard disk problem I ran a utility-chkdsk-that was supposed to clean up the disk and I got a bunch of messages saying bad cluster. Is there a way to re-install windows using the IBM recovery disks without destroying all my data? Any advice would eb greatly appreciated.

Think the indexing system may be messed up.

[killer]

AFAIK restoring from the recovery disks will delete all your personal data files. Copy all personal files to an external HDD and then run a full recovery. You may then copy all your data back to the C drive. I hope this helps.

[robhill]

The only problem is that when windows "fixed" bad clusters, it turned all my files into 32 mB chunks. I have been able to reassemble some of them, but not all.