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Hard Disk - Bad Sectors
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21. January 2005 @ 04:08 |
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I have a 60GB hard disk and it has a lot of bad sectors scattered around it which renderrs half of it unusable. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this, i heard that if you take a magnet and you place it on top of it and move it in circles it can make them disappear just like that including your data. Is this true, or am I totally screwed. Any ideas will be good.
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dlc2000
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21. January 2005 @ 04:22 |
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if you are not worried about the data on the drive you could try formatting it . this may correct the problem with the drive . the drive also could ready to fail in which replacement is a option .
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21. January 2005 @ 04:34 |
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Lets see i formatted it about 5 times and still i get nothing. Tried the windows check disk scan and attempt bad sector recovery selected, still nothing. So what now.
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dlc2000
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21. January 2005 @ 04:44 |
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i would say its time for a new drive .
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21. January 2005 @ 05:05 |
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is there any one here that specializes in hard drives. Can anyone answer my original forum question. And can i fix it? Geez
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ddp
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21. January 2005 @ 05:23 |
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get a low level format software from hd manufacturer to see if it clears bad spots but no guarantee that will work
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21. January 2005 @ 05:26 |
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you want me to look up a samsung hd cleaning software. ok ill try
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ddp
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21. January 2005 @ 05:39 |
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you didn't say what drive you have & there is about 6 hd manufacturers out there
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21. January 2005 @ 05:41 |
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i have a Samsung SV6003H hard disk.
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ddp
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21. January 2005 @ 05:58 |
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23. January 2005 @ 18:02 |
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tried it it wont recognize my HD what now help
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ddp
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25. January 2005 @ 08:50 |
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25. January 2005 @ 20:40 |
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sorry it doesnt work once i double click it the DOS window opens and then it closes automatically what now?
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25. January 2005 @ 21:02 |
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You could try Spin Rite, http://grc.com/ , Ive always been interested to see how well it works on a bad HDD...or if it works at all....
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colw
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25. January 2005 @ 21:35 |
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am I totally screwed?
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Think the answer is 'YES' - time to give up and buy a new hard drive.
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ddp
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26. January 2005 @ 06:23 |
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mmalyszko, try it at the dos prompt, not thru windows
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26. January 2005 @ 11:57 |
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its hopeless even at level 5 nothing
its scrap metal to me now
anyone want it its still in one piece for about 2 more days
anyways thank you guys for your support and i appreciate it but its almost a 4 your HD so u do the math
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ddp
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26. January 2005 @ 12:12 |
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at least you learned something
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Easycola
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27. January 2005 @ 12:12 |
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mmalyszko, for future preferences, any time one spots bad sectors on ones hdd it's high time to start looking for new one (like others stated on this thread allready). "Fixing" the old one is kinda like planting your apple tree on nuclear fallout area and hope something eatable would come through.
Bad sectors are allways symptom of drive head failures and more are created till either drive head (or motoristics) totally screws up or writes one bad sector on your mbr (Master Boot Record) which would render your OS unbootable. There is no fix, it's consumer electronics...:)
Feeling incomplete?
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27. January 2005 @ 14:24 |
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what are good HD companys
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ddp
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27. January 2005 @ 14:29 |
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maxtor, samsung, seagate & western digital but prefer maxtor over wd by a long shot
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27. January 2005 @ 14:35 |
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i have a 160 WD but ill take a look at maxtor, i need one more 160GB HDD
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ddp
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27. January 2005 @ 14:39 |
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than stay with wd as some drives might not like mixing with other brands
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ddp
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27. January 2005 @ 14:39 |
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27. January 2005 @ 14:40 |
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