HDD Errors

[ZachMarius]

older laptop HDD took from a used laptop. It's a Toshiba 60GB drive (MK6021GAS) I've tried it in the laptop and from usb hook up to my main computer. I've tried formatting it through windows setup and through computer management. I've tried erasing it and fixing it through Active@ killdisk, disk eraser, and partition recovery. My problem is that it won't format or let me use it . It keeps coming up with errors saying it can't format due to damage on the disk. As far as I know this HDD has never been dropped or broken. Is there a program out there or something I can do to either partition out the damaged parts of it or fix them so I can actually use this drive?

All help is appriciated!

Thanks!

 

[CrispyFried]

does it give a consistent percentage point at which it fails?

 

[bendixG15]

Longshot...but.....try running memtest to check memory...

Once, I had a bad memory slot and it wrote garbage to the drive,
made it look like HDD problem.

 

[ZachMarius]

It gets to about 20% very very slowly and either quits saying it has corrupted disks or....yeah or it gets around 25% very very slowly then acts like a ferrari speeding through formatting and ends saying the drive is damaged.

 

[bendixG15]

I would try writing all zeroes to the drive (aka low level format)
if memtest shows no errors

 

[ZachMarius]

I have an to no avail. It'll wipe it to 0's and try to format it to NTFS and it still says it's damaged.

 

[bendixG15]

Well...whats left.? check the cable ???

How about running a hard drive diagnostic from the manufactorer's website
(or some freebie site)

If it finds errors, it may fix with a version of chkdsk or scandisk

 

[spherrod]

might be worth trying DBAN on it - see if that works and then reformat?

 

[BadThad]

Definately run the hard drive manufacturers diagnostic program on the drive....that will tell you right away if the drive is indeed bad....no brainer.

 

[ZachMarius]

I can't find the diagnostic tool for it. It's a toshiba MK6012GAS drive. Anyway I've tried to format it and get this error message through Win2K

*** STOP: 0x000000CE (0xF7419D80, 0x00000000, 0xF7419D80, 0x00000000)
DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS
This driver may be at fault: partmgr.sys

*** Adress F4719D80 base at F7149D80, DateStamp 00000000 - partmgr.sys
*** Adress F4719D80 base at F7149D80, DateStamp 00000000 - partmgr.sys

If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check to ....

And you know the rest. I know the hard drive is at fault so what can I do. I'd rather not buy another one and toss this, and if possible partition out the damaged part so I can use like 40 or 30gb's of the original 60.

Thanks!

Oh BTW I did run Dban (dang that thing is a nuker) and then ran Win2K and got this message. So I don't know what to do.