I have purchased 2 new harddrives within the last 4-5 months to replace an 80gig maxtor that had the same problem as the new drives. The new drives i bought were 160gig, and 120gig maxtor drives that all get bad sectors and I lose data and get an unstable system.
I have reformated and reinstalled a clean XP install on all three drives over the months of corruption. When the 80gig started to go I backed up alot of data and did a reinstall. I put some of the backed up data on the new "clean" system and shortly after started losing misc files making some programs unusable, I would run chkdsk and it would show that I had some bad sectors.
I think that some of the backed up data may have been corrupted and when I put it back on my harddrive it is causing the bad sectors, so this last time I reformatted the 120gig drive and installed XP. I did not put any of the backed up data on the harddrive but am still getting bad sectors and loss of data.
So WTF is going on, are the hard drives toast? Is there a way to map the bad sectors so WIndows wont use them?
I have run chkdsk /f as well as chkdsk /r. The /f command does all three steps, but the /r command locks up at step 4 of 5 (hangs at 0% complete, left it for 2 hours and was still at 0%).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I have reformated and reinstalled a clean XP install on all three drives over the months of corruption. When the 80gig started to go I backed up alot of data and did a reinstall. I put some of the backed up data on the new "clean" system and shortly after started losing misc files making some programs unusable, I would run chkdsk and it would show that I had some bad sectors.
I think that some of the backed up data may have been corrupted and when I put it back on my harddrive it is causing the bad sectors, so this last time I reformatted the 120gig drive and installed XP. I did not put any of the backed up data on the harddrive but am still getting bad sectors and loss of data.
So WTF is going on, are the hard drives toast? Is there a way to map the bad sectors so WIndows wont use them?
I have run chkdsk /f as well as chkdsk /r. The /f command does all three steps, but the /r command locks up at step 4 of 5 (hangs at 0% complete, left it for 2 hours and was still at 0%).
Any suggestions?
Thanks