SpinRite 5.0 ?

Question about times of spinrite run?

I have a clients dell dimension XPS D3000,pentium 2,about 3 yrs old,that stalled on scan disk at "C;\PROGRA`~1\MICROS~2

When boot wont go to win.com says "drive has developed bad sectors,run scandiskâ€

I tried booting from norton util emerg disk,but still stalled, so iv had SpinRite 5.0 running for 3 hrs,now it says estimated time remaing 9 hrs, just keeps extending time?

Its now run 4 hrs & only at 24% complete !!

 

Depending on the size of the HD, it could take a long time to complete the first benchmark run of Spinrite, but if there's any way to fix any problems on the HD, Spinrite is the thing to use.

I have 2 20 Gig HDs in my computer and it took 14 hours to do the first benckmark run on them... I just did my 90 day HD check on my computer and it took 9 hours to complete, so don't be surprised if it takes awhile, just go do something else for a day.

It may be taking longer than you'd like because in order to repair bad sectors and recover data, it has to move the data, recondition the sector if possible, mark the sector as unusable if necessary and then move the data to a good sector if necessary.

While it's running you can monitor the various screens to see if any bad sectors are being found, whether they're being repaired etc., so just be patient... depending on the number of errors, it could be a time consuming process.

If it finds too many errors, it may mean that even though it can repair them and restore data you'd better start looking fo a new HD while you can still save the data on the one going bad.

 

As Harold said, SpinRite is probably moving/recovering data. I learned this the hard way, myself, just as you are learning now. I have since, whenever possible, copied the suspect drive to another, done a quick format on the troublesome drive and then run SpinRite. This eliminated all that time recovering/moving data.

Like I wrote, "whenever possible ". Sometimes it is impossible to copy the data to another drive.