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western digital 30gig harddrive....dead?

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Nab

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For some random reason my 30gig WD harddrive messed up on me, i'm really sad because it had a lot of my media :frown: It started when i tried to access my media files and it said "file could not be found" even though the icon was sitting right infront of me. So i ran chkdsk /f (i have win XP Pro) and it restored the files and it worked fine for about an hour, and then the same thing happened again. In a couple days it got worse and worse. When i tried to run chkdsk /f the harddrive kept correcting bad clusters for 4+ hours. I decided to try and format the harddrive using the windows xp program. When i tried to format it using NTSF it kept giving me an error. The the content of the harddrive doesn't matter anymore, so a full format would be fine. Thanks.

-nab


edit: This harddrive is the second one, so it does not have any of the operating system files or anything of that nature.
 
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
RMA it. Or if it's past the warranty, break out the WD utility disk and write zeroes to the drive.
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I can't return it because it is past warranty. I'll have to find that WD utility disk ....i'm assuming "write zeroes" means to format it using that? Thanks. Anyone else with a suggestion?
 
Originally posted by: Nab
Originally posted by: NokiaDude
RMA it. Or if it's past the warranty, break out the WD utility disk and write zeroes to the drive.
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I can't return it because it is past warranty. I'll have to find that WD utility disk ....i'm assuming "write zeroes" means to format it using that? Thanks. Anyone else with a suggestion?
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Writing zeroes to the drive makes the drive scan every inch of the platter checking for errors. If there are error's after the utility has wiped the drive "clean", it will label those bad sectors and make sure they aren't used anymore. The utility to write zeroes to the drive is found in the "diagnostics" menu of the WC utility boot disk.
 
i did the short test took about 2 minutes .... no errors
i did the long test took about 15 minutes .... no errors
i did the zeros took and that took about 17 minutes (it doesnt give an error report)

so far everything is working fine again, and i'm starting to upload my media back onto the harddrive

thanks for the all the help, i hope that it doesn't mess up again :frown:



-nab
 
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