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Bad sectors on HD?

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sharq

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I have an old P2 laptop with a 6gb hd. It is a toshiba HD and I searched on their site and they don't have any utilities.
I believe the drive has bad sectors as I tried to reinstall win2k on it after it crashed and wouldn't load up win2k (said it couldn't find an OS). So, my situation is, there is no OS on the laptop and win2k's install fails on the format at around 15%. This laptop is for someone else, so they need windows and not linux. I am looking for any way that I can salvage the drive, a tool I could use to tell the OS to ignore the bad sectors, or even if I'm totally off on my assumption that they are bad sectors. Any help/advice will be appreciated.
 
Yeah, generally, when a drive develops bad sectors, RMA it if it's under warranty (this drive probably isn't), or else toss it/disassemble it for fun/hang it on the wall as decoration, and get a replacement. Bad sectors now can mean more bad sectors in the future.
 
Well, I'm not tempted to spend $200 on a harddrive for a laptop this old. I know that it is close to dying, but I'd like to find out if there is a tool for what I'm trying to do. Even if not for this hd, for my own toolbox in the future. Please lemme know. Thanks.
 
Tbh i dont think you will have much of a hhd left if you let it live with bad sectors. I had a 160GB drive which came with bad sectors (didnt realise this at the time) and over the course of 3 months problems got worse and worse until the os had been re-installed 10+ times and it had eventually totalled itsself. Free engineer came out and replaced it and alls well 🙂
P.S i dont think a new hdd for your laptop will be $200, if it is thats really expensive.
 
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