ton's of bad sectors on my harddrive...

[leeland]

OK the drive started failing and I could not access it...ran harddrive regenerator on it for a week straight lol...stopped half way through because of the time it was taking to complete...

Drive shows up as health in disk management but I am curious if the drive is toast or if formatting it will allow me to use the drive?

 

[Seekermeister]

Have you run CHKDSK /R in the Recovery Console? What does it look like when you run a defrag on it?

 

[TriggerHappy101]

Is it making audiable sounds that it shouldnt? Scratching, clicking, buzzing, hissing, mooing etc. Then yes it is toast. If not - run spinrite on it - if it finds bad sectors on it and cant repair it throw it out and buy a new HD.

 

[John]

1) Back up any important data on the flaky hard drive
2) See if the drive can be RMA'ed to the mfg
3) If unable to obtain an RMA take a hammer to the drive and beat the tar out of it
4) Purchase a new drive

 

[pkme2]

Clattering, clicking, hissing, moreover bad sectors, known indicators of a failing hdd.

No question to backup all data immediately like John said.
With the prices of 250GB HDDs, I see no reason not to clone main HDD, if you can afford two.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: John
1) Back up any important data on the flaky hard drive
2) See if the drive can be RMA'ed to the mfg
3) If unable to obtain an RMA take a hammer to the drive and beat the tar out of it
4) Purchase a new drive

Well to clarify a bit, I can't access it at all, drive shows up, says it is healthy but each time I try to get into it XP asks me if I want to format it...

I will try the recover console later tonight hopefully to see what it says...

 

[imported_goku]

Get partition magic.

 

[John]

Try GetData back dat recovery software