Physical HD errors

[koger]

I have been so clumsy to drop my old harddisk on the floor. I seems to have some physical errors which I can't fix. I tried to run scandisk under Windows ME it took 2 days, a long time for a 13GB disk I would say.
I hoped all the bad sectors would be marked but there still seems to be errors.
Is there anything I can do to make the hd useable again ?

Perhaps someone has a link where I can read about the problem

 

[cockeyed]

If ME is the same as Win98, did you check the "Throrugh" and "fix errors" boxes when you ran scandisk? If not, do so. You might also check the HDD manufacturer website for a diagnostic repair utilitly. I know that IBM has one; my guess is that your HDD maker also has one. The repair utitilies usually will lock out bad sectors.

 

[koger]

Yes I tried that in the scan, no luck