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Damaged HDD problem
weera:
Hi guys, I need some advice on this one.
My HDD is damaged, still able to see or open files in it but some files are corrupt or damaged. I'm saving good files to another drive right now.
My HDD was dropped when it was working, it's an USB HDD.
Am I able to use it again after I moved all files and reformat it? Or should I buy a new one?
Thanks in advance for any input :)
Quantum:
Depends how damaged it was. Hard drives are the most sensative thing to being dropped, if something is misaligned in it now, there's no recovering it I'm afraid. I'd give it a format and another try though.
james007torres24:
yes idk anything about this but yea u should reformat then run that error checking thing on the HDD. i think ther is a was to block out the damaged part of it and just write and read on the rest of it.
weera:
--- Quote from: Quantum on November 05, 2006, 12:32:14 am ---Depends how damaged it was. Hard drives are the most sensative thing to being dropped, if something is misaligned in it now, there's no recovering it I'm afraid. I'd give it a format and another try though.
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Yeah, I might try to reformat and give it another shot. Luckily it still running but very slow with lag time that stressed me out >:(
Thanks Quantum :)
--- Quote from: james007torres24 on November 05, 2006, 12:45:17 am ---yes idk anything about this but yea u should reformat then run that error checking thing on the HDD. i think ther is a was to block out the damaged part of it and just write and read on the rest of it.
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Yeah, it was once that CHKDSK thing ran on the drive and do the thing.
Thanks James :)
gazu2k:
You should try Spinrite 6 from Gibson Research
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
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