Hello. I have this HDD => Western Digital WD400 Scorpio Mini IDE (for notebooks).
I'm using it with a usb-carry.
I'm not using it for work purposes, but to carry my music, movies, pictures, etc from one pc to another.
Recently I discovered some of the files got corrupted.
I decided to give the HDD a nice and clean format. First I used the simple "format" option under windows xp right-click menu.
It was useless. So, I decided to get more serious into saving the disc, because, I repeat, I don't have important data to recover, but I use it a lot to carry my stuff.
So I got HDDRegenerator, scanned every sector several times, and everything seems to be fine. No bad sectors at all.
But, in one of those scans, i think there was data on the disc, and I got some "delayed" sectors.
Well, I got the Hiren's boot cd, and tested most of the tools, and one of those tools (sorry, can't remember the name) reported "Raw Read Errors"
I'm getting out of ideas, so now i downloaded the low-end format tool, to give a low end format, and try again.

The question is simple: Can I repair the disc to use it? I don't have enough memory to buy another one...
Thanks!

The answer is even simpler : NO.

well... that was a quick answer... thanks

let's suppose the disc is not repairable.
is there a way i can still use it, even not at full capacity?
i don't know... maybe just using a small 10 gb partition or something?

PS: couldn't find the edit button. I don't have enough money to get another disc...

You kill you disk more with these programs. Try MHDD and scan for your bad sectors. This might help you but still agree with BlackST sounds like this drive is ready for the trash and a new one needs to be found for you. Drives are cheap now a days and should be able to pick one up for around 70 dollars and sometimes less depending on whre you live and what you get. Or just get a scan disk and carry your stuff on it might be cheaper than all this mess

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you make it worse already.

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Thanks everybody for the support, i just have one more question related with this issue.
Is there a software i can use to check if the files i copy into the hdd are corrupted?

I'll try to explain myself more clearly.

Let's suppose I upload a folder with 50 mp3s.
There's a chance that a couple of those mp3s are corrupted.
Anyone knows if there a software that quickly "compares" the original files with the ones i copied into my hdd?

Winhex

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