Seagate Momentus ST9160821A

[karelprochazka]

Hi,
I am a newbie in this forum, so please, excuse me if I double post or sound too naive.
I have a Seagate ST9160821A 160GB laptop drive. When I plug it in the computer in external enclosure via USB, it shows fine. I can copy files, write/read without any problem. When I tried to use it as a boot disc in my laptop, it would crash the Windows installation every single time.
I checked it with MHDD and it shows error on just one sectors. I tried ERASE command, but it would crash the program and say the there was fatal failure and that the disc is bad.
When I tried to run SCAN with Remap, it would start showing bad sectors all over. When I tried the Erase Delays option it would crash again.
So I guess I have several questions:
1. How to fix simple errors shown in the scan?
2. Is there a sequence in how to fix the drive by using different options? By reading FAQ from Dmitry I would gess that you run first the Remap option, an then the Erase Delay. Am I right?
Thanks
Karel

[N.C.]

This drive is good for a brick or doorstop.
Drop away and buy another one, if you don't want to loose time & data....

Janos

[tyson]

Maybe it is better to buy a new disk for you computer if data is important. This disk will go bad and you could loose your data. You can zero fill the disk and do a low level format to try and correct the errors on the disk to use as a spare but I would not use as a back up.

[BlackST]

Karel, ask a pro near you to recertify the drive. A pro knows what to do. And - likely - it will cost you only a few bucks. If the drive survives, it would be OK. If not, you have a Momentus paperweight.