Hard Drive Repair

[NomisST]

I have a 40 gig HD for my PC that I'm going to sell. I want to take the 40 gig out and put in a 20 gig HD. The only thing is the 20 gig has problems on it. I don't know what happend. When I used the 20 gig last time it worked perfectly. I just left the HD in a box for awhile. When I put it back in to replace the 40 gig it has many problems on it. The computer can read it, but it can't be reformatted. Everytime I tried, it would say Format Terminated or just not have any percentage rate. I would do it in MS-Dos by the way. Also when I used my 40 as the master and the 20 as the slave when I entered windows and opened the 20 gig it would say device is not working properly or something like that. So is ther any way I can repair the HD or something. I do not want to have to buy another one so I can sell it for a cheapter price. So please someone help me please. This is $300.00 I can make with a free repair to my HD. Please someone help me please.

 

[redbeard1]

If there is nothing on the hard drive you care about, then download the drive manufacturer's diagnostics and use it to write zeroes to the drive. The program's usually make a bootable floppy disk. If it can be fixed this should do it. Otherwise you may still have some warranty on it too.

 

[loup garou]

Go to the manufacturer's website to see if it's still under warranty, if it is, follow their instructions for receiving an RMA.

 

[NomisST]

Red Beared: Where can I get the Drive Manufacturer's Diagnostics? I went to the Samsung site and got this program called Dc10_global.exe. They call it the Disk Manager Creator. Is this what your talking about?

Werk: What do you mean there RMA? I see it on the Samsung website, but what does RMA stand for. This is just a personal question for increasing my knowledge. What does it do also?

Hey you two, thanks for your help I appreciate it a lot. Thanks. You guys saved me $300 bucks if this works.

 

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If it's still under warranty, they will issue an RMA number so you can sent it back.

 

[redbeard1]

This looks like the utility that would wipe the drive the easiest. Their utilities seem to leave a little to be desired. Most of the other drive makers have everything incorporated all on one disk. You could also try downloading seagates drive utility. It used to have a generic test included with it so you could use it on other drives.

Samsung Hutil

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: redbeard1
This looks like the utility that would wipe the drive the easiest. Their utilities seem to leave a little to be desired. Most of the other drive makers have everything incorporated all on one disk. You could also try downloading seagates drive utility. It used to have a generic test included with it so you could use it on other drives.

Samsung Hutil

I had to test a Seagate drive the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to see that they have a web-based diagnostic tool! Now that is nice! No more downloading and creating a boot disk, rebooting, etc. Just click on your drive and test away! Very nice.