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1234aaron
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_ 		7. March 2009 @ 04:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sammorris i need ur help here m8

so, i have this WD 300GB USB HDD and its been stuffing up latly. well i plugged it into a damaged usb, which actualy got hot, so it short circuited right? but ever since then its been really annoying. sometimes i get delayed write failed, curropts (sorry i cant spell) and sometimes it takes ages to access folders on the hdd or it'll just freeze etc. anyway i was looking about and found stuff about these "bad sectors" and "track 0 bad disks" etc. and i wanted to know, is there any tools to repair this stuff? i would like to just empty it and just reformat it and put everything back to see if that'll just help but i only have a 80GB internal HDD. so im kinda stuck here. i need everything on that hdd!!!
thanks for any help in advance.

aaron :)
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Hey m8 :D
sammorris
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_ 		7. March 2009 @ 18:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The first step you should take is to backup the drive's contents, then wipe and reformat it. That's quite a good way of getting bad sectors re-allocated.
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1234aaron
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_ 		8. March 2009 @ 03:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok well if its worth the effort, ill have to find someone with a big HDD, ill do it :) tanks sammorris ill get back with the results :p
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Hey m8 :D
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