HD Corrupts my files! How to dignose/fix?

[Alexio]

I've noticed that my SATA Samsung 200Gb Single partition HD tends to corrupt bigger (500 mb and up) files. Explicitly, when I've reconstructed a CD image on this drive from smaller rar's, I had several CRC errors when trying to unpack archives from within that image. I've tried it 2 times, the errors were different every time. I know that it is HD-related, as when I've unpacked the same file to my second HD, I had no problem at all. SMART shows no issues with the drive. My assumption is that I have some bad blocks which are not properly mapped. How can I test/fix this issue? I'm running XP, disk has NTFS formatting.
Thank you all for ideas.

 

[Trader05]

Make sure you have the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard, unless its a SATA PCI card, check for drivers for that. I never seen a Sata *cable* go bad, but just incase switch that out. Check your voltages on your PSU if possible, maybe that hard drive is getting low voltage. Also have you checked your memory with memtest?

 

[Alexio]

Chipset is fine. Both of my HD's (including the one with no problems) are SATA. Memtest went well... Voltage seems to be fine

 

[ice91785]

download something like Drive fitness test and run through those HDD tests to make sure your HDD is alright

 

[Seekermeister]

Run CHKDSK /R in the Recovery Console, and it should mark bad sectors and attempt to recover data.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: Seekermeister
Run CHKDSK /R in the Recovery Console, and it should mark bad sectors and attempt to recover data.

Ja, for each volume and also add the "f" switch for fixing the file system (chkdsk c: /f /r, chkdsk d: /f /r, and so on). It is not necessary to run the Recovery Console (from disc or HDD) but can simply be initiated from Windows Run dialog or command prompt for exectution upon next boot. 'twould also be wise to run Samsung Hutil diagnostic.