Isolating bad sectors on portabledisk/musicplayer

[Flavcool]

Hi,

I recently dropped my 20gb iRiver mp3 player . The song it was playing got stuck, but eventually it switched to a different song and it was working. So I thought all was fine. However, I soon realized some songs weren't working and some ended abruptly. I then tried to connect it to the comptuer and it never allowed me to open the disk, "my computer" just got stuck as the HD light on the player just stayed on. You can hear a repetitive hd noise inside the player when it gets stuck like this.

Someone said the head probably touched the platter when it was dropped and certain sectors of information got SCREWED. My questions are the following:

1) Can I connect it to the computer successfully without reformating from the player itself?

2) Will the bad sectors fix themselves after the reformat?

3) How do I isolate the bad sectors, if 2) is a no?

Thanks,

Flaviu

 

[Gautama2]

1.Not sure
2.Bad sectors wont fix themselves.
3. Start a chart, record every song that it does this on.

 

[Flavcool]

Originally posted by: Gautama2
1.Not sure
2.Bad sectors wont fix themselves.
3. Start a chart, record every song that it does this on.

Hmm it's not like every song takes up one sector though. ?? confused.

 

[Gautama2]

Indeed, but groups of songs will be in different sectors, and if it messes up you can tell that that song is in the damaged sector.