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Is my hard drive salvageable?

grrl

grrl

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I have an old laptap that just took a serious knock. Now the HD has some damage on the platter. It runs fine once it manages to get through a VERY long but incomplete scandisk process. Once I got into Windows I ran scandisk again hoping it could mark the bad sectors and that would be all, but it froze up at one of the really bad spots. I've tried scandisk again from a boot disk, but it quits at the same point.

Is the drive a bust or is there another program I can try that will mark the bad sectors so the machine can boot up quickly?

The damage is fairly far into the drive, not near the boot sector.
 
If you know who made the drive, go to their website.
Usually they have utilities that you can download to test the drive and sometines do a low level format.
I had a problem with a maxtor and used their utility to do a low level and then ran the extended test to re-certify the drive.
 
The drive is an IBM in a Toshiba laptop, but IBM's site says their diagnostic program does not work on those drives.
 
Ah....IBM.....

How is the drive sounding?....does it keep spinning up/spinning down or clicking?....if it does then the diagnosis is not good. Do you need to get information off the drive?, if you don't then try fdisk or format with partition magic.

Corm
 
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