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    Bad sectors? Hardrive

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tonydt1g3r, Nov 16, 2005.

  1. tonydt1g3r

    tonydt1g3r Notebook Guru

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    I think I got a hard drive issue. I took out a notebook harddrive from an old notebook and bought one of those USB 2.0 cases for the hard drive so I could use it as a backup storage. Well the drive is about 10gb and I have about 4 gb of info on there but I cant seem to copy any more information on there. I think maybe some sectors went bad or tracks but I cant seem to fix it. Scan disk doesnt do anything is there any other programs i can use to scan it and fix it.
     
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hard drive manufacturers generally have diagnostic utilities which can identify and in some cases fix issues with the hard drive. Check the manufacturers website for these.
     
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    Iter Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you try to backup your data to another HD, then delete all the partitions and format the HD?? may be can fix it.
     
    Iter, Nov 16, 2005
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