Bad Sector on HD

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:02 pm

Has anybody tried to fix bad sectors on a hard drive?

I have a Maxtor IDE drive that is dying and I'd like to know if results are satisfying enough before I throw it away.

Thanks

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:22 pm

You could try a low-level format but IMHO it's not worth it.. it's too risky to save valuable data to a drive that's had problems.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:06 pm

throw it away.

valis · Post by **valis** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:35 pm

It's far more common with a dying hardware that it is a firmware issue (the drive electronics) than problems with the magnetic media. I agree, ditch the drive.

bronYaur · Post by **bronYaur** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:32 am

if your hd maxtor have no more of 3 years of life you can send it to maxtor and obtain one new,download the powermax utility and get the error code, it must send with hd to maxtor

sorry for my english

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