Scratching problem IBM deskstar 30 ATA

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I've started getting problems with my harddrive. It occurs when I start up
Edonkey. I'm guessing files are being transferred to a bad sector.

When the problem occurs scratching is coming from the harddrive and the PC
freezes intermiddadly. I can resume if I can manage to turn of Edonkey.

I have tried DFT and it reports that there is a bad sector, but if I try and
'fix' the sector using the DFT utility, it freezes halfway through the job.

Is this harddrive beyond repair? If so, is the information on the rest of
the 'good' part of the harddrive safe?



Thank you for your help

Oz
 
They aint called DeathStars for nothing.

I've started getting problems with my harddrive. It occurs when I start
up Edonkey. I'm guessing files are being transferred to a bad sector.
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Very likely.
When the problem occurs scratching is coming from the harddrive and the
PC freezes intermiddadly. I can resume if I can manage to turn of Edonkey.
Click to expand...
I have tried DFT and it reports that there is a bad sector, but if I try and
'fix' the sector using the DFT utility, it freezes halfway through the job.
Click to expand...
Is this harddrive beyond repair?
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Maybe not. You could move all the data off the drive
and then use DFT to low level format the drive. That
can return an unusable drive to usability again.

That 'fix' may well not be permanent tho, it may well recur.
If so, is the information on the rest of
the 'good' part of the harddrive safe?
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Nope, definitely not.

Run, dont walk, and buy a CD burner if you dont have
one already and copy at least the files that you will
slash your wrists if you lost to more than one CDR.
 
oz said:
I've started getting problems with my harddrive. It occurs when I start up
Edonkey. I'm guessing files are being transferred to a bad sector.
Click to expand...

Read_from a bad sector, more likely.
When the problem occurs scratching is coming from the harddrive and the PC
freezes intermiddadly. I can resume if I can manage to turn of Edonkey.

I have tried DFT and it reports that there is a bad sector, but if I try and
'fix' the sector using the DFT utility, it freezes halfway through the job.
Click to expand...

It shouldn't do that obviously.
That is either a bug in DFT or in the drive's firmware.
Is this harddrive beyond repair?
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Depends.
Other functions in DFT may not run into this behaviour and do the job correctly.

You also have to find out if the drive is deteriorating or that there are
external influences (heat, power flucts) that lead to this and remove those.
If so, is the information on the rest of
the 'good' part of the harddrive safe?
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Not with this type of behaviour, it isn't.
 
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