Summary: Hi Experts, I have a notebook Sony TX. It's hard disk has some problems (I suppose Bad sectors). New hard's cost is about 300 dollars, so I am not del...
Summary: Virtually all hard drives have a tiny percentage of bad sectors. All hard drives since very early IDE drives have a small percentage of sectors on the...
Summary: Bad sectors don't necessarily make the card unuseable. Windows usually marks the bad sectors and does not try to write to them. So you lose a little...
Summary: There are some handy utilities here; http://www.hardwaresite.net/download.html Depending on the make of your drive, you may not only be able to detect...
Summary: don't try recovering the bad sectors. it will only aggravate the problem. you are lucky those sectors are marked bad. no data will be stored there. H...
Summary: If you can move up to win2000 or WinXP so you can use the NTFS format. Normally FAT32 have much more problem than NTFS. Before when I used FAT32, I ...
Summary: Hey I have a hard drive that is going bad. It is making noises and then when I try to boot up it gives me a message that ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt or mi...
Summary: The 10 gig drive i have in this system has bad sectors. It has 9 or 10 bad spaots in the surface area of the disk. Is it possible to fix this drive at...
Summary: Knowing how old your hard disk is and what File System you are using would help. When a disk is formatted, space is reserved for the re-allocation of ...
Summary: If you use a utility to make a copy of your hardrive (Drive Image) to your new one. No. The bad sectors will not transfer to your new drive. The drive...
Summary: If a hdd has a few bad sectors, it is generally not a problem. a) can you not find a way of stopping scandisk b) I do not know of any program that c...
Summary: Just the reporting of bad sectors doesnt always mean there are bad sectors. Most disk scanning programs mark sectors bad when they determine data cann...
Summary: hdd: fujitsu mhn series 20gb how to fix the hdd so, that it does not use (read/write) to bad sectors. these are not standard bad sectors, because i t...
Summary: I have a pair of Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm EIDE drives. The master drive is 80GBs, about 15GBs left. The slave is 200GBs, well over 110GBs left. I’v...
Summary: Hi. I got 2 questions for ya. I formated one of my computer because it had a bad sector and just needed a format. but.. It still has a bad sector or s...
Summary: The only reason that I can think of it not working is that the drive has too many bad sectors to fix (relocate). Bad sectors are not really fixed. The...
Summary: i have two hard drives in my system. the one im concerned about is not the boot hard drive. the hard drive im concerned about is a quantum fireball ...
Summary: Hi guys! I have a terrible problem ... A week ago my hard disk (Seagate Baracuda 30GB IDE) have started to restarting itself and for seconds Windows X...
Summary: I hope you still have the old drive to copy from. Use Acronis true Image to make an image of the drive, do not clone sector by sector. An image will n...
Summary: Here's a link to some help in trying to fix bad sectors. http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_a_b... I have no personal knowledge of these solutions and ma...
Summary: I have an old 730MB drive with nothing on it, it has been recently formatted, when it was being formatted with the Windows 95 start up, there seemed t...
Summary: I recently started having problems with my 20gig 7200rpm ata100 Maxtor Hard drive. After running scan disk I discovered no less than 6 bad sectors. M...
Summary: Hello.. After many system halting and restarting, I was sure that there is some defuct in the Hard Disk... I did an F-DISK then a full format to the 5...
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