HDD comes up with "Basic structure corruption" on Seagate Scan

[TailsNZ]

My 300gb HDD comes up as one giant "BAD" in Partition Magic, gulp! I used File Scavanger 3 to recover all the data, and it worked like a charm (although not on the few files I had bigger than 4gb, but that's ok, I had them backed up), but now I'm left with a hard drive which I'm not sure how to fix.

I try to format it in Partition Magic and it comes up with an error and can't complete it, and EASEUS Partition Manager won't even touch it (it disables all the buttons when I click on that drive). Hmm.

I'm currently trying the Windows XP format, because it kinda worked using Quick Format (but still, it shows up the same in Partition Magic and such) so I wonder if the full format will fix it.

Any ideas though?

Thanks SO much for reading!!

 

[Zelvek]

got to your HDD manufactures website and download a copy of their diagnostic software for your drive then run it and it should tell you if anything is wrong with the drive.

 

[TailsNZ]

I could use the Windows Disc Management to delete the partition on the drive, and then it worked. I created the partitions in Partition Magic.

But that was a good idea, I scanned it with the Seagate Tool and it says:

"File Structure Test Result - Results: Failed with critical errors
The following error were found while scanning the volume
- Basic structure corruption"

Beyond that, the other drive (the one I restored the data to) comes up with:

"The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more file names contained errors
- One or more errors were found in the index
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records"

Interestingly enough, that 2nd drive there was replaced by Seagate only a month ago.

Any suggestions about what to do with the drives? Thanks again!!

 

[QueBert]

I don't trust Partition Magic, it was telling me my partition was bad same as you. So I ran Spinrite with no errors, then I tried another partition program trial, and it didn't show a problem. Just to be safe I wanted to copy my files to a new drive, I bought Disk Director, and it also said it was fine. I copied everything, and on the new drive PM shows the partition as bad. My PC has been working flawlessly for a year now, nothing else is reporting any type of issue. So basically I just chalked it up to PM is mistaken

 

[TailsNZ]

Interesting, hmm, I did try a different program (EASEUS Partition Manager) but, and I know there's only so many ways to set out a partition program, it looked almost identical to Partition Magic. I'll give Spinrite and Disk Director a go if this happens again.

For now though, it seems to setup alright. It's just the fact the Seagate program comes up with errors on the drives that has me worried. CHKDSK didn't find any, but now I'm zero filling the drive (I googled the problem and it seemed a few people suggested this?) at the moment, then I'll re-scan afterwards.

It looks like it's going to take 10 hours (!!) though, wow... I hope zero-filling works!

 

[TailsNZ]

Mmm the Seagate program finds those errors on all my hard drives on all PC's (4 drives across 2 computers), but Windows CHKDSK doesn't and on the other PC in particular (an old 80gb drive of mine), there hasn't been any issues.

I'm backing up everything to DVD anyways, but I wonder if maybe I don't have to worry about this? Or should I ship em back to Seagate?