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Mick Fisher · 05-02-2011, 18:48

Out of the box my Acer Aspire (can't remember model) had a bad/unreadable cluster on it's HDD.

Prior to discovering this, I couldn't get ESET to complete a scan although other AV's had no problem plus among other issues Acronis mostly (but not always) failed to make a image.

Trying to research the issue I came across a mammoth thread at Wilder's about the same issue that had been running for ages without ESET support solving it. As the majority of complaints were about Acers, I now wonder if, somehow or the other, a batch of Acer machines were/are? suffering from the same issue.

Just wondering if you should run chkdsk before trying to convert to NTFS again?

Hmmm...Just remembered my attempt to upgrade from vista to 7 failed big time. Maybe my bad cluster had a hand in that? I guess I should try the upgrade (or maybe just reinstall) again sometime now it's fixed.

05-02-2011, 18:48	#13
Mick Fisher Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northants Age: 82 Services: Sky Unlimited FibrePro Sky Talk Sky+HD Posts: 5,122	Re: Major laptop problem Out of the box my Acer Aspire (can't remember model) had a bad/unreadable cluster on it's HDD. Prior to discovering this, I couldn't get ESET to complete a scan although other AV's had no problem plus among other issues Acronis mostly (but not always) failed to make a image. Trying to research the issue I came across a mammoth thread at Wilder's about the same issue that had been running for ages without ESET support solving it. As the majority of complaints were about Acers, I now wonder if, somehow or the other, a batch of Acer machines were/are? suffering from the same issue. Just wondering if you should run chkdsk before trying to convert to NTFS again? Hmmm...Just remembered my attempt to upgrade from vista to 7 failed big time. Maybe my bad cluster had a hand in that? I guess I should try the upgrade (or maybe just reinstall) again sometime now it's fixed.