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Bad sectors again? What gives?
This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and
installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) ?? |
Have you downloaded the HD maufacturers diagnostics?
Run those and go from there. regards Graham On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:23:42 -0400, david wrote: This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) ?? |
I went to Maxtor and downloaded their diagnostic tool, which said
there was no error - but when I run scan disk - it shows 9 megs of errors - worse than that, I cannot do a thorough scan disk because of the - write protection error - I assume the error is in a windows file. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:52:04 +0100, Graham wrote: Have you downloaded the HD maufacturers diagnostics? Run those and go from there. regards Graham On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:23:42 -0400, david wrote: This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) ?? |
Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what
I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:21:04 +0100, Conor Turton wrote: In article , says... This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) **** all wrong with the old drive and if you can't see this you shouldn't be doing anything with computers except using Word on them. I'll throw you a bone. 1)Install first drive, it works fine. 2)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data 3)Install second drive, it works fine. 4)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data (STARTING TO SEE A PATTERN????) 5)Use DOS based tool that doesn't load Pro Magic and it reports all A- OK. If you haven't worked out that Pro Magic is the root of all your problems then you're a friggin moron. There is nothing wrong with the drives. The partitions have got corrupted from that sack of **** software you're insistent on installing. Wipe the drive, partition it again AND FOPR **** SAKE DON'T INSTALL THAT PRO MAGIC ****. |
"david" wrote in message ... I went to Maxtor and downloaded their diagnostic tool, which said there was no error - but when I run scan disk - it shows 9 megs of errors - worse than that, I cannot do a thorough scan disk because of the - write protection error - I assume the error is in a windows file. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:52:04 +0100, Graham wrote: Have you downloaded the HD maufacturers diagnostics? Run those and go from there. For years the hard drive manufacturers software has been useless when it comes to reporting errors that you know you have., in particular, WD and Maxtor. |
Did it and unistalled the pathetic Pro Magic software - guess what? 0
Errors on the drive. What a waste of the day, but at least I know now. Thanks to all that helped On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:26:00 -0400, david wrote: Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:21:04 +0100, Conor Turton wrote: In article , says... This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) **** all wrong with the old drive and if you can't see this you shouldn't be doing anything with computers except using Word on them. I'll throw you a bone. 1)Install first drive, it works fine. 2)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data 3)Install second drive, it works fine. 4)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data (STARTING TO SEE A PATTERN????) 5)Use DOS based tool that doesn't load Pro Magic and it reports all A- OK. If you haven't worked out that Pro Magic is the root of all your problems then you're a friggin moron. There is nothing wrong with the drives. The partitions have got corrupted from that sack of **** software you're insistent on installing. Wipe the drive, partition it again AND FOPR **** SAKE DON'T INSTALL THAT PRO MAGIC ****. |
In article ,
says... Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it. Apologies for the abuse. Shouldn't have done that. Spent first day after I got married cleaning up the mess from yet another virus infection on a couple of friends PCs. Some friends.... -- ________________________ Conor Turton ICQ:31909763 ________________________ |
In article ,
says... For years the hard drive manufacturers software has been useless when it comes to reporting errors that you know you have., in particular, WD and Maxtor. They're not useless, they work quite well. What you need to remember is that their function is specifically to check the drive and that it's reading and writing properly. They are not a tool to detect or repair corrupt partitions or data. -- ________________________ Conor Turton ICQ:31909763 ________________________ |
I had same thing u did, with PM, and I never use PM again, I give the PM the
flick, I will use Fdisk from now on "david" wrote in message ... Did it and unistalled the pathetic Pro Magic software - guess what? 0 Errors on the drive. What a waste of the day, but at least I know now. Thanks to all that helped On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:26:00 -0400, david wrote: Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:21:04 +0100, Conor Turton wrote: In article , says... This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard. Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9 GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing this software...what the hell gives? What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd? When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still bad sectors. Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive (again!) **** all wrong with the old drive and if you can't see this you shouldn't be doing anything with computers except using Word on them. I'll throw you a bone. 1)Install first drive, it works fine. 2)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data 3)Install second drive, it works fine. 4)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data (STARTING TO SEE A PATTERN????) 5)Use DOS based tool that doesn't load Pro Magic and it reports all A- OK. If you haven't worked out that Pro Magic is the root of all your problems then you're a friggin moron. There is nothing wrong with the drives. The partitions have got corrupted from that sack of **** software you're insistent on installing. Wipe the drive, partition it again AND FOPR **** SAKE DON'T INSTALL THAT PRO MAGIC ****. |
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