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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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In need of Advice Please

January 3rd, 2008, 15:42

I have a Fujitsu MHT2040AT 40GB drive which would not load windows XP. I ran a MHDD scan on the drive which showed lots of bad red X sectors. I then ran a repair and relocate scan which came back with a good result. What I want to know is, has this drive now been fixed or could it go faulty again in a couple of months. The reason I ask is because I ran a scan on a newer drive, which actually showed up more problems than I now have on the original drive.

Re: In need of Advice Please

January 8th, 2008, 14:01

hi,

I would not use this drive anymore for anything important.

pepe

Re: In need of Advice Please

July 23rd, 2008, 22:23

your drive would be fix but the bad sectors are still there
i would not take the chance as your lose your data at some point

all hard drive have bad sectors from the day they are made

Re: In need of Advice Please

July 23rd, 2008, 23:14

Drives with a lot of bad sectors tend to get a lot of bad sectors. In other words, the drive is on it's way out.
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