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*note* this is a long one, but please bear with me, i need to find out soon what the problem is
my friend brought over his computer on sunday because it was all messed up. I couldn't do anything about it, and finally he told me that it needed to be redone anyways. So i poped the HD into my computer, backed-up what he wanted to keep, and formatted the drive, just like he wanted. Everything was working fine, until I put the drive back in his computer. I got ME (yes, the poor bastard is still using ME) to boot off of the cd, and it would try to run scan disk immediately, well that failed right off the bat. So I went through dos, ran fdisk, redid the partition, and now when I go into the ME boot screen, it wants to format the drive, all right, great, PROGRESS! But damn, it keeps poping up this error after a few percent. So the next day, monday, I started it before i left for school, got back at 4, and it was at 43 percent, i was impressed, but i left and came back 5 minutes later, and the damn error screen was back (i don't recall exactly what the error screen said, i believe it said the drive had faulty sectors or something...i'm no hard drive guru). So i tried going back into fdisk, and redoing the partition and starting from scratch, but oh no, the volume lable has somehow changed to code that i can not reproduce with the keyboard, and the drive is 99% full...... So alas, i gave up for the night. Woke up this morning, put his drive into my comp, and formatted it. Well hell did i have a time formatted it, it just wouldn't go. Eventually i just started up the format, and went to school, got back, and it was done. Now i put his drive back into his comp, redid fdisk, and started the format, that was at 4 o clock, it is currently at 3%.
I'm thinking the hard drive is screwed, but i don't have a 20gb sitting around the house for me to try it with, so is it screwed? and is there any program i can get that will check the drive for errors? ( i can't seem to get scan disk to do it when its in my computer)
my friend brought over his computer on sunday because it was all messed up. I couldn't do anything about it, and finally he told me that it needed to be redone anyways. So i poped the HD into my computer, backed-up what he wanted to keep, and formatted the drive, just like he wanted. Everything was working fine, until I put the drive back in his computer. I got ME (yes, the poor bastard is still using ME) to boot off of the cd, and it would try to run scan disk immediately, well that failed right off the bat. So I went through dos, ran fdisk, redid the partition, and now when I go into the ME boot screen, it wants to format the drive, all right, great, PROGRESS! But damn, it keeps poping up this error after a few percent. So the next day, monday, I started it before i left for school, got back at 4, and it was at 43 percent, i was impressed, but i left and came back 5 minutes later, and the damn error screen was back (i don't recall exactly what the error screen said, i believe it said the drive had faulty sectors or something...i'm no hard drive guru). So i tried going back into fdisk, and redoing the partition and starting from scratch, but oh no, the volume lable has somehow changed to code that i can not reproduce with the keyboard, and the drive is 99% full...... So alas, i gave up for the night. Woke up this morning, put his drive into my comp, and formatted it. Well hell did i have a time formatted it, it just wouldn't go. Eventually i just started up the format, and went to school, got back, and it was done. Now i put his drive back into his comp, redid fdisk, and started the format, that was at 4 o clock, it is currently at 3%.
I'm thinking the hard drive is screwed, but i don't have a 20gb sitting around the house for me to try it with, so is it screwed? and is there any program i can get that will check the drive for errors? ( i can't seem to get scan disk to do it when its in my computer)
