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hi, My laptop (Acer TravelMate, Window XP) crashed and I re-formatted the entire HDD. However, I guess there were some physical damages on my HDD since the system began to lag whenever I tried to install new software and there were some scary, dragging noises from my HD. I am wondering if there's hope to save my HDD by using software like FBDISK to seperate the bad clusters or should I just replace it with a new HDD? Thanks for the help,
Name: Chuck 2 Date: March 22, 2009 at 11:41:58 Pacific
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Doubt bad sectors make noise. Noise from the HDD means it is likely to go bad. Mechanical devices do go bad.
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Name: davinci6375 Date: March 24, 2009 at 12:59:45 Pacific
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Hi, Chuck: thanks allot for the reply. I am very certain that my hdd does not collect dust. So I guess I should replace another HDD? Thanks again for the info
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: March 24, 2009 at 15:57:13 Pacific
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You should identify the manufacturer of the drive and then download/run their diagnostics from the manufacturers web site.
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