Bad CLusters in Hard Drive.... Help?

[lurner]

Hi i have a 45 gig IBM 7200 rpm hard drive that was working fine for about two weeks... however yesterday, i put it on thoruouhg scan disk and then went to sleep. When i woke upp and tried to restart the computer it wouldn't. It got stuck on the windows 98 starting screen.... so i formattd the 2 gig partition that has the os on it.... hten i tried to reinstall windows but it turns out hat my ohter drive is dameaged too.... ihave bad sctors or something i manged to install hte os again.... and it works...h owever i still have those bad/damged sectors.... how do i repair or restore it?

 

[lurner]

oh yeh.... i used scandisk and that doesnt repair anything when i use it ... it jus tells me how many sectors are damaged

 

[esung]

Download the Drive Fitness Test 2.1 from IBM.. It might help. otherwise, it's time for RMA.

 

[bacillus]

go here for drive fitness!

 

[Jiggz]

Bad sectors can only be removed by a low level format or what they call "zero'ing" the HD. Basically, it will remove all the data and at the same time re-set the HD to all zeroes like it just came out of the factory. Check IBM for the utility.