Need Help Removing Bad Sector From Hard Drive

[eddie]

Need Help removing Bad Sector

Diamond Max 3400 Ultra ATA Model # 91020D6

I?ve been trying to get rid of this bad sector for quite sometime. Started when one day I
booted up the PC and it said that I may have a bad sector and to press any key to run
surface scan. I started surface scan, turned off monitor and went to sleep. Next day I
turned on monitor and it was on my desktop. (Thinking that it fixed the bad sector)
Within a day after I did the surface scan my PC started doing random lockups, locking up
and installing games, programs etc, cause me to have to reboot. I decided I would format
the hard-drive. I deleted the partition in fdisk, rebooted then went to format c: and it
started fine. When it reached 7% it would lock up and say ?format not ready? ?format
terminated?. So unable to format the drive doing Format c:, I tried format c: /q. It
formatted fine and I reinstalled windows. Now I am at the point again where installing
programs, games etc the PC will lock up. I?ve ran Scandisk surface scan and it gets to
sector 87,203 and locks up causing me to reboot. Any suggestions?

 

[mastertech01]

I dont know if Max Blast has a zero write program on it, but you can use one of several companies software to do this..it just writes zeros to the drive overwriting ALL DATA completely and usually cleans up the bad sectors. This of course is considering that you dont actually have a bad drive but just an uncorrectable data error that format cant fix.

 

[eddie]

so it doesnt matter which company just find a zero write program?

 

[BT7990]

Try and use Maxtors if you can.
http://www.maxtor.com/SoftwareDownload/utilities.html
Sometimes they can be finicky.

 

[Ladi]

Bad sectors are not always recoverable, as they are often the sign of a hard drive waiting to die. A "fixed" sector means that it has been marked for non-use, but only so many sectors can be marked as such before a hard drive fails completely. More info here.

~Ladi

 

[eddie]

I cant seem to find a zero write program for my hard-drive. I downloaded maxblast but it doesn't seem to have a zero write program. Anyone know where I can download a zero write program for this hard-drive?

 

[Edski]

You need to download "Maxdiag" from Maxtors website and put it on a floppy disk. Boot to a floppy, put the floppy in that has Maxdiag and run it. There will be 3 tests, quick, read, and write. Run all three tests, the write test will write zeros to the entire drive. If it fails any of the tests, write down the error code and call their customer service department. That drive is still under warrantee.

 

[eddie]

UPDATE

I called up maxtor and I am getting it replaced. Thanks for your support.