Hard Drive
This is a discussion about Hard Drive in the Windows Hardware category; I was given a 3 gig hard drive yesterday, I know it pretty smal but anyway I'll cut to the chase. Upon running diagnostics on it I discovered that it had somewhere in the region of 17 bad sectors on it.
I was given a 3 gig hard drive yesterday, I know it pretty smal but anyway I'll cut to the chase.
Upon running diagnostics on it I discovered that it had somewhere in the region of 17 bad sectors on it.
Now I've heard that low level formatting the drive usually will cure this problem, but before I do so is it advisable? I want to use the drive to put Windows 2000 on to go in my system as an additional operating system for me to mess around with.
My current 20 gig drive is nearing half full, and I don't fancy spending a good few hours re-partitoining and reformatting the drive as theWin 98 SE system is running really smoothly, well the only problem I have is with my CD Writer but I think thats because I have some really cheap blank CD's andmy writer is a little fussy over what CD's I write to, or its the SCSI cable.
Anyhow the hard drive in question is a 3 gig Quatum Fireball 3200 AT, so before I go and low level format it I need to know if doing so will get rid of the bad sectors, although it doesn't matter either way, the drive was given to e anyway.
I don't come here too often so if anyone reads this then please send a reply to my email address which is
behemoth@nfsracer.com
Thanks, Behemoth
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My Computer
Atlon K7 550
Gigabyte 71XE MB
192 Megs of RAM
20 gig Samsung Hard Drive
16 Meg Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
50X CDROM
4x CDR SCSI Drive
Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller
Sound Blaster Live 256!
Upon running diagnostics on it I discovered that it had somewhere in the region of 17 bad sectors on it.
Now I've heard that low level formatting the drive usually will cure this problem, but before I do so is it advisable? I want to use the drive to put Windows 2000 on to go in my system as an additional operating system for me to mess around with.
My current 20 gig drive is nearing half full, and I don't fancy spending a good few hours re-partitoining and reformatting the drive as theWin 98 SE system is running really smoothly, well the only problem I have is with my CD Writer but I think thats because I have some really cheap blank CD's andmy writer is a little fussy over what CD's I write to, or its the SCSI cable.
Anyhow the hard drive in question is a 3 gig Quatum Fireball 3200 AT, so before I go and low level format it I need to know if doing so will get rid of the bad sectors, although it doesn't matter either way, the drive was given to e anyway.
I don't come here too often so if anyone reads this then please send a reply to my email address which is
behemoth@nfsracer.com
Thanks, Behemoth
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My Computer
Atlon K7 550
Gigabyte 71XE MB
192 Megs of RAM
20 gig Samsung Hard Drive
16 Meg Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
50X CDROM
4x CDR SCSI Drive
Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller
Sound Blaster Live 256!
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Jan 17
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Throw the drive away. LLF's do not "usually" help. Bad sectors mean more are on the way.
Well said!
Behemoth, listen to DosFreak, he is 100% correct. You are really better off spending the $50 to $100 to get a new drive.
Behemoth, listen to DosFreak, he is 100% correct. You are really better off spending the $50 to $100 to get a new drive.
i agree, even if i have 1 bad sector, i toos the drive, i feel that the bad sectors just get bigger and bigger.
OP
Thats ok, I thought as much, just aswell it was only given to me, didn't lay out any money on it thankfully. Oh well more hardd rives will come my way, I'll check see if the Quantum is under warranty though, there maybe a month or two left.
Behemoth
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My Computer
Atlon K7 550
Gigabyte 71XE MB
192 Megs of RAM
20 gig Samsung Hard Drive
16 Meg Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
50X CDROM
4x CDR SCSI Drive
Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller
Sound Blaster Live 256!
Behemoth
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My Computer
Atlon K7 550
Gigabyte 71XE MB
192 Megs of RAM
20 gig Samsung Hard Drive
16 Meg Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
50X CDROM
4x CDR SCSI Drive
Adaptec PCI SCSI Controller
Sound Blaster Live 256!
