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Hard drive help

irishgeo · 2003-01-26 14:54:41

I am having major problems with my hard drive. I have bad secotr on my d:\ drive. The hard drive has 4 partitions c: winxp NTFS d: FAT32 linux and linux swap . I keep getting errors and windfows refuses to let me do any error checking or to defragment it. I am have downloaded software from smasug website as it is a samsung…

26-01-2003 3:54pm

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irishgeo

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I am having major problems with my hard drive. I have bad secotr on my d:\ drive.

The hard drive has 4 partitions c: winxp NTFS
d: FAT32
linux
and linux swap
.

I keep getting errors and windfows refuses to let me do any error checking or to defragment it.

I am have downloaded software from smasug website as it is a samsung v4002

Any ideas on how to fix things or do i need a new hard drive.

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#2 26-01-2003 4:20pm

longword

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As a general rule of thumb, if a modern IDE hard disk openly admits to having any duff sectors at all, it's time to go shopping. Though you might get somewhere if you backup what you can, format, and restore.

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#3 27-01-2003 7:51pm

Yavvy

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I reckon if your gona split your hard drive like that get your self a SCSI drive. the chances of bad blocks are greatly reduced and reliability is increased 10 fold. I wouldnt use an IDE drive past a simple partition.

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