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Bad Sectors
The drive is a little over 1 year old. I don't believe it's still under warrenty.- Truthpursuer42
- Post #9
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Bad Sectors
The manufacture is Western Digital. Nightowl, I tried low-level formatting the entire drive, but it didn't help.- Truthpursuer42
- Post #7
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Bad Sectors
Haha, I've been told that many times...well, this is one strike against TigerDirect.com- Truthpursuer42
- Post #3
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Bad Sectors
I have discovered many bad sectors on my HDD. In an effort to repair these sectors, I've executed diagnostics software (which then froze and could not complete the scan) and have formatted the HDD...but I can't correct them. Knowing the general location of the corrupt sectors, I tried using...- Truthpursuer42
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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DMA troubles
Ok, I'll take all that into consideration. One thing you might find interesting...I found those bad clusters running Scandisk, but scandisk never completes...it seems to freeze on a cluster. Low-level format time?- Truthpursuer42
- Post #3
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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DMA troubles
My HDD has been doing weird things lately, not to mention I found over 400 bad clusters...anyway, DMA mastering is supported by my HDD, and it was previously enabled. Recently, however, I discovered that the box was no longer checked, and that I could not re-enable DMA. Could this be caused by...- Truthpursuer42
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
