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    I have a tough one!!! Hard drive errors

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Chamillitary Man, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. Chamillitary Man

    Chamillitary Man Notebook Geek

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    Just got a WD 500 blue, I used a cloning program to copy my laptops hard drive to it in a ext usb case. The program was having trouble coping and reported bad sectors. So I decided to abort the clone. Then I when to windows to reformat it, at this point it did not show up under “My Computer.” Next I go to Computer Management and see the it needs to be “Initialized” So I try to do that but get an error message saying “Data error (cyclic redundancy check). I google the problem and get a message board saying to go to “diskpart” inside of DOS and “clean” it. So I did that still not fixing the problem.

    Any guess…
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    Noterev Notebook Consultant

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    It's always a good idea to scandisk and degrag before cloning not that it was necessarily what caused your problem. Aborting the imaging process is never a good idea.

    If you're not making any headway through windows, you might just have to install the HD in the laptop and build from scratch.
     
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    Good to know. I'll install the hard drive and try to build it from scrach and see what happens. I'll post the results thanks for the help.
     
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    Blue
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    More googling says I should use a disk utiltily program. Does anyone know of one that can force an Initialize of a hard drive? I looked at WD web site and they don't seem to have what I need for SATA tech support.
     
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