maxtor sata 250 MHDD report

[sathurnn]

hi guys, after a death blue screen "unmountable boot volume" i use MHDD to scan my hd
It's a maxtor sata 250 and the mobo is an abit ni8 sli
i posto some pict about the result of the scan.

I don't understand this values, could you help me?
I would like to know if this hd must waste and if with a completely reinstall of xp i can solve.
thank you in advance

[drc]

Bad sectors, probably one of them contained important boot-related info.

[Zorb]

Unmountable boot volume can be caused by damaged volume header or descriptor, occasionally MFT corruption.

One I have seen a few times is a single bad sector in a registry file, that causes BSOD+Reset, ad infinitum, on startup.

If you're feeling daring, have MHDD reallocate the bad sectors, but first, run scan with narrow range, say starting at error-10000 sectors and ending at error+10000 sectors. If the error goes away, image the disk byte for byte onto another equivalent disk and see if that works. Don't use ghost, use dd or something similar. If the error doesn't go away, reallocate the sector per mhdd documentation, back up everything immediately, fully scan+reallocate, reformat disk, reinstall, rerun scan a couple times to make sure you can trust it (if mhdd reallocates more than 2 or 3 sectors, throw it in the garbage and buy a new one or RMA if under warranty).

EDIT: Best to just RMA if still under warranty after getting your data off.

[BlackST]

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[sathurnn]

I think i solved. I've read of an incompatibility between this hd and old nforce4 mobo, that cause loss of data and unexpected reboot. After chkdsk /p /r the system booted normally, I have followed instructions of an italian forum (move hd jumper to 1,5 Gb/s, and uncheck "queuing command"), so i hope this works!!
Thanks a lot to all

[Zorb]

Chkdsk is not trustworthy. It can cause issues.

Read forums (not just this one) before posting questions. 95% of questions people post on forums can be solved by what others have already asked/written. If you had read the forum, you wouldn't have run the Chkdsk.

[BlackST]

Uhm... don't go so fast... have you seen the atts on the smart ?

[sathurnn]

ok guys....i don't know...what to do with these smart values? Change HD before it will break?

[BlackST]

FIX it (not by you) or CHANGE it (by you).