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Hard drive on blink, advice needed please...........

  • 20-09-2006 8:10pm
    #1
    godskitchen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭


    turned on my desktop this morning and it would not boot, i have 2 80Gb HDD in it, one samsung and one seagate, i could hear one of the drives trying to spin and the PC would not boot, so i assumed it was the master drive (samsung) turned out its the Slave (seagate)

    Took the seagate out and it booted fine, now have it back in and its booting but the drive was called HD2, now its just the default F Drive, clicking on it after about 30-40 seconds, it asks me if i would like to formatt it.....................

    This drive is about full and Windows was telling me to clear some stuff off it, so if it had "Bad sectors" would this cause it to fail if full? its full of music and video,i would like the data back!

    Just ran Seagates SeaTools, its telling me "found bad sector:" twice, so there is two of them, does this mean the drive is in fact spinning but has bad sectors and can the data be taken off?

    Any ideas what i can do? my next idea is to freeze it and see what happens! Cheers


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Bad sectors sometimes imply that there is some sort of configuration error but more commonly, a sign that there is an issue with the hard drive itself. It is an impending failure I think. Try to let the hard drive cool down for a while before plugging it in again to get data off it. This is set as the slave drive on the Primary IDE cable, correct?


  • #3
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    Look for a program called Hard Drive Regenerator, as it fixes these bad sectors brilliantly! Has saved my life many a time...it makes a bootable cd and from there lets you pick your hard drive and runs through fixing the bad sectors it finds...it can take a while though,couple of hours like but its a very good program.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,604 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    spinrite is possibly the best at recovering bad sectors, or it used to be

    for a very long time IDE and SATA drives have had spare sectors on the drives that you don't know about, once you start seeing problems it's either the OS acting the maggot OR the drive on the way out.

    get a SMART utility to check the drive - it's a seagate drive and their utility is telling you the dirve is sick then don't ignore the weather.

    best to get a new drive and prepare to copy everything over.


  • #5
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    majiktripp wrote:
    Look for a program called Hard Drive Regenerator, as it fixes these bad sectors brilliantly! Has saved my life many a time...it makes a bootable cd and from there lets you pick your hard drive and runs through fixing the bad sectors it finds...it can take a while though,couple of hours like but its a very good program.

    Hard Drive Regenerator has also absolutely destroyed a hard drive on me before. So be careful...


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