Here's the situation. I dropped my Toshiba (A105-S101) very hard on a stone floor and by a miracle, except for the hard drive, it survived. After several experiments with disc utilities like chkdisk, it looks like anything beyond 25%(about 14.5GB) of it's 60 GB capacity is not accessible. I then made one single C partition of 14.5GB and loaded winxp on it and have had no problems working with it so far.
I also made two more partitions so my disk looks like this: Part C (14.5GB);Part E (5GB); Part F (40GB). The idea was to isolate the crash area in Part E and salvage the rest of the disk with Part F. But, after writing some files successfully to Part F, the system hangs so my approach doesn't work.
Is there a program which tests for disk errors and reformats the disk to isolate them? Or is there any other solution. I am trying to avoid buying another hard disk.
I also made two more partitions so my disk looks like this: Part C (14.5GB);Part E (5GB); Part F (40GB). The idea was to isolate the crash area in Part E and salvage the rest of the disk with Part F. But, after writing some files successfully to Part F, the system hangs so my approach doesn't work.
Is there a program which tests for disk errors and reformats the disk to isolate them? Or is there any other solution. I am trying to avoid buying another hard disk.
