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    Dead HDD or Not Dead HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by grbac, Jun 18, 2008.

  1. grbac

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    I know this has been asked a million times, but.... I have the problem too unfortunately. Maybe.

    I attached two pictures, one showing a dead HDD and the other perfectly normal HDD, it's only a quick scan but I don't think it matters. Anyway I managed to save all the files from it, even if there are some errors, it wasn't full so I did manage that.
    What really happened was I tried to write some files on it and then a small yellow triangle popped out in the tray telling me that windows was unable to write all data to it, like $mft, the file that I was copying, and some other stuff, popping out like 10-15 times. So I disconnected it and tried to connect again and my problems started. It would want to connect and then even if it did, it would show unknown size, like it is not formated. So I opened the casing, played a little bit with the IDE connection and tried to recover some files which was successful. After that I formated it and the size was then shown and everything was normal. Then I made this two pictures.

    So my question is what to do now, how to know if it's good or not, is the IDE connection, coz it makes some strange sound from the day I bought it, the IDE not the HDD, the HDD runs very silently with no strange sounds, clicking or whatever.
     

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  2. flipfire

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    Run windows checkdisk and other diagnostic programs.

    It looks half dead to me. Its definately unreliable from here on.
     
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  3. grbac

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    OK, will run checkdisk and get back.
     
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    OK, so Win XP checkdisk finished with both options on and it didn't show any errors or anything.
    Suggestions?
     
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    oh dear me!
     
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  6. grbac

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    ^^^Sometimes I wish there is "Deduct from XY Reputation" button. :mad: :mad2: :realmad:
     
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    I ran a freeware Checkdisk 1.03. Here is the log. Seems like everything's OK.

    -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
    checkDisk will work now with drive: J:
    J:\ Volume Label: , File System: NTFS
    CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
    File verification completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
    Index verification completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
    Security descriptor verification completed.
    CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
    Free space verification is complete.
    Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
    97683200 KB total disk space.
    3972 KB in 3 files.
    8 KB in 10 indexes.
    0 KB in bad sectors.
    68968 KB in use by the system.
    65536 KB occupied by the log file.
    97610252 KB available on disk.
    4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
    24420800 total allocation units on disk.
    24402563 allocation units available on disk.
    Check Disk: Finished OK
     
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  8. flipfire

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    Do a full scan of HD tune. It could take up to 2 hours.

    Write errors and reported damaged sectors is usually a sign of a dying HD. Try replace your connector if you can.
     
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    ROBO HUNTER, Jun 18, 2008
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  10. grbac

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    HD Tune says the disk is good. The disk is now working and connecting as it should, as it did before. I believe it was just a connection, even though I don't understand why it showed errors then.
    Anyway thanks everyone for trying to help me.
     
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  11. ROBO HUNTER

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    Is the damaged HDD still under Warranty?
     
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  12. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    start,, run,, command

    format X: /u /c
     
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