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Re: looking for good read&write surface scanners for Hard Drives
de beenthere 06/17/2006 06:15
"Hermann Berben" <Hermann.Berben@telenet.be> wrote in message
news:nHVkg.487429$x14.12536927@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Thanx, but I have a maxtor hard drive. and when i use the maxtor program
> (powermax)... it gives a warning a have a bad
> sector and than closes... maybe i did something wrong? but another program
> would sure be nice, apart from chkdsk (build in windows xp)
>
> again, thank you for the rapid response
>
> "beenthere" <Waiting@Home.com> wrote in message
> news:mLVkg.31209$1Z2.886@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
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>> "Hermann Berben" <Hermann.Berben@telenet.be> wrote in message
>> news:UBVkg.487416$Ti2.12605536@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>>> looking for good read/write surface scanners for Hard Drives
>>>
>> The best one has got to be from the Hdrive manufacturer.
>> most of them do checkrepair tools for their drives. For free.
>>
If Maxtors` own software says you`ve got a faulty drive H.
Then you`d better believe it.
Is it out of warranty ?.
Rescue all your stuff off it while you can for safety.
It is possible to Fdisk a drive, and mark out bad blocks, altho`
personally, I wouldn`t risk my stuff on a `dodgy` drive.