Re: Best hard drive repair software?...

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

In article <TfX4e.10948$6a5.5378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
frank <frankmcma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Ken,
>
>Thanks for the info. I have two external Maxtor one touch drives and they
>started getting errors, the errors were listed at bootup (before XP
>launches) and it ran some disk check and fixed the errors, however it has
>been deleting corrupted files, including some folders in this process. It is
>happening more as the drive is filling up. So I am randomly losing data.
>
>What I am looking for, and what I think I need, is a program to run
>diagnostics on the drives and map out bad sectors so they are not used.
>
>By the way now when I go into the drives in XP and into Properties/Tools I
>run the error repair and it cannot complete the operation, on both drives.
>
>Any suggestions or help is great..thanks!
>
>Frank
>

Your disk is dying. replace it.

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