Hi,

I got a 100gb toshiba IDE HDD [External but could be used as an IDE Internal for laptop]. It got some bad sectors. When copying data, it stops at some stage alerting me "device not ready". I formatted it, partitioned it, chkdsk it...nothing error but when pasting data to it, the device not ready error comes back. Obviously, it is easy to copy and delete whats already in it.

I run spinrite yesterday and it found 3 Unrecoverable errors [ 3MB scanned and found 3 errors]. It must run for 78 more hours and the hdd was very hot so i disconnected it.

Today, I run Acronis on it and it reported nothing..just created it as FAT32 and thats it.

Whats going on wit my hdd? What can I do? I borrowed it from a friend and its pretty new. Is there any quick way to eliminate those bad sectors and move on?

FYI: It was dropped in the first place

Hello,

Your drive have internal damages.
This drive will never be trustable again.
If you want good drive, try to RMA it.

Janos