RE: Re Formatting a corrupt disc

If the drive seems to be stalled at one point (and 20 hours is definitely
stalled!!) it means that the system keeps hitting bad sectors. From the lack
of progress (and speaking from experience) the drive has a large area at the
41% area that is VEY bad. There is no real way of knowing just how far the
bad area extends - unless you want to leave the syetem trying till Christmas
2006) - and if the drive has such a large area of bad sectors then it is
extremely unlikely to provide even ).000001% reliability.

There is NO reason you should continue trying with this drive, even if you
get it reformatted the extent of the bad areas suggest that you will NOT be
able to do anything with it. About the only useful thing you could do with it
is to get a screwdriver out and open it up to see what is inside - hard
drives are way too small to be able to use as a boat anchor, maybe use as a
paperwight!

"Steve" wrote:

> Having managed to retreive my data from my harddisk (second disk-data only)
> with bad sectors (and/or corrupt mbr??) I've decided a complete re format is
> the way to go. Trouble is its been formatting for 20 hours now. It took a
> couple of hours to reach 41% and a further 10 hrs to progress a further 1%.
> Anyone know if this is normal for it to take so long?......bearing in mind
> its a 200 gig disk
> cheers
> Steve
>
>
>
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