Scandisk - help please!

[Robin Richardson]

I have an Acer Aspire computer which had Windows 7 on it. I wished to change to XP, but received a message saying "can't install, errors on disk". So ran Scandisk from DOS and it found 10,000 + bad sectors(?) and then said out of memory.

Can I start again from the point where the sectors have been marked as bad, otherwise I expect the same thing to happen again.

Thank you

Robin Richardson

[truenorth]

Sounds to me like you need to replace the HDD with that many bad sectors.Given that you are changing the O/S this would be a good time to do that.truenorth

[jason2074]

You could also install Windows XP mode with selected Windows 7 editions so you can use both OS.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode
If its a dual boot of Win XP with Win 7 Home Premium and Below
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8790/dual-boot-your-pre-installed-windows-7-computer-with-xp/

[Allan]

First of all, there is no scandisk in Windows. Second, if your hd had 10,000+ errors it wouldn't even boot. Please tell us EXACTLY how you checked your hard drive and EXACTLY what message(s) you saw on the screen.