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Tech Help Please, anyone. HDD problem.
    #7660651 - 11/20/07 08:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I have a seagate 300 gig sata drive and windows failed on it. Said that the \windows\system32\config was missing or corrupt.

I did a reinstall of windows and then it did it again, so I did a repair install. So far all looks good. But when I do a checkdisk on the main c:\drive it never finishes the sector scan, it gets to phase 2 and says that it was unable to finish.

Additionally, seatools (a seagate HDD examiner tool) fails during a file structure/file system scan. There are 3 partitions including the main c: drive.

Does anyone know of a program out there that might be able to scan and correct this file system problem? Also, would formatting that partition, the C: drive and then just reinstalling everything help or fix the file system problems?

Thanks.


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Re: Tech Help Please, anyone. HDD problem. [Re: Army of None]
    #7660702 - 11/20/07 09:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

sounds like it's got fucked up sectors. you should probably throw it away :/ . HD's are very cheap nowa days anyway.


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Re: Tech Help Please, anyone. HDD problem. [Re: Merkin]
    #7660715 - 11/20/07 09:12 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Merkin said:
sounds like it's got fucked up sectors. you should probably throw it away :/ . HD's are very cheap nowa days anyway.




So bad sectors are un-fixable from my end?


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Re: Tech Help Please, anyone. HDD problem. [Re: Army of None]
    #7660747 - 11/20/07 09:24 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

yep usually, especially by the sounds of it in your case. Once you run windows check disk, and it can't fix it, it basically skips over to another part of the hard drive (and loses the data that's on the fucked up sectors)
So if you have any vital info, save it now.


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Re: Tech Help Please, anyone. HDD problem. [Re: Merkin]
    #7660819 - 11/20/07 09:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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Merkin said:
yep usually, especially by the sounds of it in your case. Once you run windows check disk, and it can't fix it, it basically skips over to another part of the hard drive (and loses the data that's on the fucked up sectors)
So if you have any vital info, save it now.




So what if I formatted the drive or rather the partition in question and just reinstalled it all.....would that work? I mean, the surface scan did alright so I am guessing that means the drive is not physically messed up ? I mean, that would replace the entire file system on the drive right? Or does bad sector mean the drive is fucked somewhere?

Thanks man for your help.


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