Author Topic: Hard Drive Repair (Read 392 times)

MwXX · « **on:** January 07, 2003, 12:36:23 AM »

ok guys, brain storm for ya...

I have a 40 GHD that has a bad section on it...when running scandisk on "thorough" it gets to a point then just starts "clicking" like an old broken record...

Heres my question...

Do they make repair software for this? OR..........

Is there a way to partition this part out? since i have a slave 30GHD? if so, how do u find the bad sector or whatever and partition it so that the system operates normally...WITHOUT having to take out the HD and re-installing or replacing for now?

any ideas?

SOB · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2003, 01:09:07 AM »

Throw your hard drive away, skip lunch tomorrow, and buy a new 40GB drive with the money you saved. Seriously, if you've definitely got bad sectors on that drive, just toss it - it'll likely get worse.

SOB

funkedup · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2003, 01:22:32 AM »

RMA the piece of crap.
When they start clicking there is nothing you can do. It's an electromechanical problem, not a data problem.

MwXX · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2003, 08:29:06 AM »

I was afraid of that! t

Thanks for the advice.....thank goodness its underwarranty~

hehe:confused:

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2003, 12:45:26 AM »

What brand is it? I've had a pile of Western Digital drives fail on me recently.

MwXX · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2003, 12:59:05 AM »

LOL. u guessed it!!!!!!!!!!

i cant believe that

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2003, 02:06:05 AM »

I had this problem once. It would hang up scandisk and Nortons. I found a repair program that came on the floppy disk that came with the drive. I think it was Western Digital. It fixed the problem.

Gunner

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2003, 02:10:23 AM »

If you can't find your disk, you can DL it here:

Western Digital

This will only work on Western Digital drives.

Good Luck.
Gunner

MwXX · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2003, 10:21:30 AM »

interesting......i will ck this out and give it a shot...! thanks for the help

~~MwXX~~