Helkp me because my techer is putting pressure on me to do this!

[ElChuntiROP]

My Presario has two 75gig hard drives. Unfortunately, the boot drive contains 3 bad clusters. Chkdsk (thorough surface check),Norton's DD and Speeddisk freeze at the first bad cluster, make a rapid 'clicking' noise for about 30 seconds (similar to a problem from an earlier post), then restart themselves from the beginning. I recently upgraded to XP and am considering converting to NTFS (for reasons other than the bad clusters). Questions: Instead of using convert.exe to implement NTFS, will a low level format of the bad drive eliminate the bad clusters? Is the drive worth keeping, or should I look to replace it?

 

[buck585]

Make sure the bios settings are correct. Then try a low level format. Drives normally have a 3 yr warranty. COntact the mfg first then if no luck, this drive is probably worthless. Clicking is the sign of death.