I do not want to reformat the drive using FDISK and reinstall using a backup of the system. I have ran Scandisk. It will not find the bad cluster, although Windows98 tells me I have a bad cluster and even tells me what cluster is bad. I have tried looking at computer related newsgroups. The one program I really liked had a Trojen horse virus attached, so I discarded it. I have looked at www.tucows and a couple other sites and still have not seen what I am looking for. I am sure that someone has written a small utility that will resolve this problem. Thank you for you responces

Kinne,
You might want to try a program call spinrite. Go to any search and type spinrite to get to their homepage. This one might help you, but its not free....its all I can think of

the questions really, is this bad cluster effecting the functionality of the pc? If not, don't mess with it. bad clusters do occure.

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Kinne, try this site