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    Acer 5610Z HDD Problem?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by kevinh143, Jan 22, 2009.

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    kevinh143 Newbie

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    Here is what I have going on, the 5610z has the HDD Partitioned into c and d.
    the d side I use to back up my movies and watch them at work, recently the data on the d side has been corrupted, the movies will freeze during playback.

    so far I can place the movie files on the c drive and I have no problem with them, I can also place them on a external drive and they play fine, this leads me to beleive the problem is more of the drive and not so much the DVD reader.

    Would it do any good to format the d drive, if I even can?

    I have done the check disc for the d drive and nothing came up.

    any idea's?
     
    kevinh143, Jan 22, 2009
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  2. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    Have you ran HDTune on your HDD, give it a try and see what comes up.
     
    Full-English, Jan 22, 2009
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    kevinh143 Newbie

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    Running it now, the first attempt aborted because of a read failure
    doing an error scan now
     
    kevinh143, Jan 23, 2009
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    HD Tune: Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 Error Scan

    Scanned data : 152566 MB
    Damaged Blocks : 3.4 %
    Elapsed Time : 95:40

    this is what I came up with, all the bad blocks are together in the middle of the drive. is there anyway to isolate them so they can not be used
     
    kevinh143, Jan 23, 2009
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    Basically, if your getting damaged blocks, it is probably time to replace your HDD.
    you can try downloading some diagnostics tools from the manufacturer of your drive and see if that can do anything with it.

    I have the same issue myself at the moment, some bad blocks, i've sort of located them, and the partition they are on i'm not using till i get a new drive.

    http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm. May be something there to try.
     
    Full-English, Jan 23, 2009
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    nklive Notebook Evangelist

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    Guys you should change your hard drive ASAP. Those signs mean your hard drive will die and it might be late to replace it yourself. I had the same situation a couple of years ago and the hard drive just died unexpectedly (after giving me errors and corrupted blocks), but my insurance company replaced it with a new one. I still could use the old one with as an external with a USB HDD enclosure but I won't trust it with important files. Even if you can fix it, that will be temporary since these kind of signs will start appearing to other sectors on your hard drive.
     
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    Cheers for the advice, just using it at the mo for browsing etc until i get a new drive, but cash being tight, may be a month or so :(
     
    Full-English, Jan 23, 2009
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    yep plan on replacing it as soon as I can, I have a 160 gig external HD so I might just mirror the internal and then install the external.
     
    kevinh143, Jan 23, 2009
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