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Disk gone bad?
A surface scan with Partition Table Doctor resulted in no bad sectors. That's about all the program could do, since it was a demo I couldn't rebuild MBR. I have also tried to delete the partition with xp cd, but it can't be removed or repaired. According to the setup program the disk has...- tobbel
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Disk gone bad?
Been running SeaTools from a bootable CD on the drive (don't have a floppy installed). One of the tests showed this: - One or more cross-links were found - One or more errors were found in index - One or more errors were found in metadata file records I have seen other people on other forums...- tobbel
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Disk gone bad?
first... The sata drive is connected to the motherboard. The original drive was not a sata, but I have another sata drive (seagate 250gb, non-system drive) that works fine. This new drive did work for 2-3 weeks (as a system drive) with no errors before this happened. Hmm... actually there was an...- tobbel
- Post #4
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Disk gone bad?
Just cloned my old drive with winxp sp2 to a new sata (Seagate 80gb, bought it 3 weeks ago). It went fine at first, but then one day it just wouldn't start windows. It boots so i can see that the drive was found, then I get to chose if I want to start Normal, Fail safe mode, last configuration...- tobbel
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