Hard drive with bad sectors
I have an old hard drive im trying to put an OS on, but it has bad sectors
and is very erratic in holding onto data without corrupting it. is it at all possible to quaratine those sectors so i can use the hdd? Any help would be appriciated.. |
Why fdisk, when format will do that?
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"Blade" wrote in message
... I have an old hard drive im trying to put an OS on, but it has bad sectors and is very erratic in holding onto data without corrupting it. is it at all possible to quaratine those sectors so i can use the hdd? Any help would be appriciated.. Just an FYI, I had an IDE hard drive suffer from the click of death a few months back. It pretty much stopped functioning and the data stuck on it was very important to our organization (it was the office manager's machine). Even Ghost failed to clone the drive. I had read somewhere that freezing a drive might give it a few extra minutes of life, and since the drive was lost I tried it (left it in the freezer overnight). Indeed, it gave the drive 40 minutes of life, enough for me to boot up the OS and grab the files we needed. Just a bit of fun trivial info that you might need in the future should the drive's condition continue to worsen... :) -- Mike |
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