Re: Isolating bad cylinders???

Dumb retard, use your brain and replace the hard drive.

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Jonah
"i_zuly" <izuly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My hd clicked. As it was recommended to my previous post, I switched the
> IDE
> cable and the power cable to the drive without success.
>
> I isolated to a separate partition 2 cylinders (~16 MB) where clicking
> were
> occurred when any activity was at that place. Next, wiped out
> (killdisk.exe
> and wipedisk.exe) remain disk space and successfully re-partition disk,
> reformatted, and checked remain partitions.
>
> Now I need to completely hide from any activity the bad cylinders, but
> using
> there any programs such as killdisk, wipedisk, format, chkdisk (incl.,
> from
> DOS or Linux booted without hd participation) lead to "hd clicking" and pc
> stopping to respond.
>
> What program should be used to do this?
>
> I'll appreciated any suggestion.
> Best, L
>


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