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Smart Drive failure - format to fix
Name: balley Date: December 16, 2004 at 23:05:12 Pacific OS: WIN ME CPU/Ram: AMD 192RAM 133
Comment:
I have classroom instruction on hard drives but not real world.
I am trying to look at a family members pc to repair.
Error: 4th ? Smart Drive ? error
Then when I scan disk it tells me sector 2 is bad. I try to repair but system hung.
Question: Because of the Smart drive error, should I just get a new disk drive?
Name: SkipCox Date: December 16, 2004 at 23:40:47 Pacific
Reply:
I think you should always err on the side of caution with a hard drive.
When smart drive reports errors, when I see a format trying or fix errors, hear noises and so forth, I just replace the drive.
Skip
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Response Number 2
Name: j1mbo Date: December 17, 2004 at 02:59:08 Pacific
Reply:
When you say smart drive do you mean Hard Disk with SMART enabled, or some other device? I turned SMART off on my disks because they were thrashing with it on.
You might be able to partition off the bad sectors (presumably this is isn't the boot/system disk you've got errors on?). I used to have a 2.5" laptop disk that was only good up to 5Gb even tho it was a few Gb bigger than that; it worked fine. Not so sure about errors at the start of the disk mind you. Worth a go before you shell out on a new drive.
Good luck :^)
j1mbo
Win2k / MEPIS linux PIII 966 / 640MB
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: December 17, 2004 at 05:01:41 Pacific
Reply:
Go to Gateway.com, download the latest version of GWSCAN and run it on the applicable PC. Run the full/extended test and go from there.
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