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Hard disk question

  • 12-07-2004 10:37am
    #1
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I had a serious problem with my single S-ATA drive last week, it would not start-up windows because of an 'unrecoverable error' on the drive, some of the sectors were bad. Couldn't even reformat.

    I bought a new IDE drive and last night installed it as my primary hard drive, running XP Home. Now once in Windows I can access the S-ATA drive and all the files and problems on it. I moved some files from the S-ATA to the IDE, but my question is this:

    If I leave the games/programs I often use on the S-ATA and run them via shortcuts placed on the XP start bar, will I be getting any performance drop versus deleting them and re-installing them on the IDE disk?

    I have a feeling that the sectors on the S-ATA that are bad must be where XP Home is installed, right? As I just couldn't get any joy without using the IDE (Windows recovery console didn't work, trying to reformat didn't work, and using Seagate's diagnostic program on floppies didn't work, all methods would crash when trying to reformat or repair S-ATA disk).

    Thanks to anyone who knows anything about this.


Comments

  • #2
    kevpatts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭kevpatts


    Your games will run faster on the S-ATA drive than they would on any IDE drive but only marginally. I don't recommend you continue running the drive without repairing it. You said you couldn't reformat, have you tried completely deleting the partition? To do this the easy way, get everything off it that you need and go:

    Start Menu -> Run -> "compmgmt.msc" -> Disk Management

    It's easy from there. once you create a new partition you should be able to run a full scandisk on it.

    Kev


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