Re: C:\ partition with a interemittent bad sector
- From: "DL" <address@invalid>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:36:05 -0000
psu:- power supply unit
If a hd has developed bad sectors its an indication it is failing, and as
such not worth the risk
But then your time & data may not be that important to you.
"jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I agree with you in certain ways, it would be foolish to use the bad part
for anything important. But I don't believe in throwing away things that
work, and probably 95% of this 40 GB harddrive is still working without a
problem. So I'm trying to get a handle on the magnitude of this problem.
The harddrive itself hasn't been used for more than about 1 year, it was
bought a few years ago as a spare. Why would a few bad sectors require
dumping the entire harddrive. Does this kind of problem spread? Is it an
indication of an overall magnetic corruption? A mechanical problem? Is
there a way to "fence" off part of the harddrive so that it won't ever be
used again.
BTW, what is a "psu".
jc
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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IMO if a hd shows bad sectors it should be dumped, or only used for stuff(C:
you dont mind losing.
Having said that, any iffy psu can cause 'odd' hd problems such as this
"jbclem" <jbclem1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My WIn2000 PIII computer has 2 hard drives and 2 Win2000 installations
showingands E:). So I can always boot up in E: when this intermittent problem
happens. There seems to be a bad hard drive sector near or at the
beginning
of the C: and when it's bad I can't boot up in C: . I can run
Partition
Table Doctor's surface test(from E:) and spot the bad sector, and today
when
it happened I couldn't access anything on C:, and My Computer was
areazero bytes on C:. I could still access other partitions on that hard
drive,
D: and E:. Usually when this happens I can't boot up in C: but I can
access
files in that partition so I assumed that the problem was only in the
therewhere the boot record was. But today all of C: was inaccessible.
I have a new hard drive coming in the mail...but I'd like to know if
disk.is a program that might help me fix this problem if it's just a bad
sector.
I've run Chkdsk, I've run SpinRite, I've run the Maxtor diagnostics
ChkdskNeither Spinrite nor the Maxtor disk find anything wrong, but that
might
just be the fact that it's an intermittent problem. Partition Table
Doctor
was finding 4 bad sectors (surface test) but today only found one.
fromfinds problems and presumably fixes them. But that doesn't stop them
seereoccuring. I know that there are sectors marked as B (bad) because I
them on of the surface tests I've conducted. But the problem is still
there. Should I try rebuilding the MBR, or rebuilding the partition
(using
Partition Table Doctor)...will I destroy something if this isn't the
problem?
This is a weird problem and I'd like some advice and suggestions for
handling it. I think most of the hard drive is ok, just this area with
the
problem. What can I do to try to fix it.
Thanks in advance...
John
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