First post, by cj_reha
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This is the third post about this specific PC ( 🤣 ) but it's come with a host of problems and this one is a bit concerning.
The PC's got a Quantum Bigfoot 1280AT 1.2GB 5.25" hard drive in it with a copy of Windows 98 FE on it. Ever since I got it, it's been corrupting itself at an alarmingly fast rate and I'm not sure what to do anymore. The only replacement for this drive I can see that isn't a Compaq OEM drive is one from Bulgaria that is $50 and is only listed as "working," no testing reports included.
Basically, I ran ScanDisk on it the first time I booted it and it reported ~28 MB of bad sectors. After booting it up to test basic restoration repairs I was doing on the system (replacing CMOS battery, replacing dead CD-ROM drive) it started to deteriorate and running ScanDisk in DOS mode revealed "physical damage to the disk" as well as corrupted sectors in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
On an unrelated note, I found about 30 documents pertaining to a strange child abuse case from a Pakistani family. Also discovered some of their old family photos, but right after viewing these documents and rebooting it started to become unbootable.
Now, it just loads to a crashed Windows Explorer, and sometimes you can bypass it by letting the desktop load first and then rebooting Explorer, but other times it only loads the background picture and then you're stuck.
Were Quantum drives, when they started to demagnetize, prone to corruption and death this quickly? Sans the 6.4 gig model that sometimes exploded, heard they're pretty reliable. Well, it was on the verge of death anyways.
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