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Purplesky

Post subject: MHDD won't scan

Posted: September 28th, 2007, 5:04

Joined: September 27th, 2007, 12:34
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I am trying to scan a Hitachi 20 G laptop hard drive using USB mode on my desktop. It hung up. Then I erased the entire disk. It took several hours but it did the job. Then I tried to scan it. It hung up again. Is there anything I can do?

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dobrevjetser

Post subject: Re: MHDD won't scan

Posted: September 28th, 2007, 6:00

Joined: December 27th, 2006, 10:15
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Location: Belgium

Try with enabling 'remap' in the scan options.

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Purplesky

Post subject: Re: MHDD won't scan

Posted: October 2nd, 2007, 4:33

Joined: September 27th, 2007, 12:34
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Tried that. No dice. Frustrated, I tried a simple Format in windows. Wonder of wonders, it worked. The drive now reads and writes all files, with almost full capacity. Can someone explain why? :lol:

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weaker

Post subject: Re: MHDD won't scan

Posted: December 1st, 2007, 13:00

Joined: December 10th, 2006, 18:24
Posts: 72

Probably the NTFS filesystem mapped away the bad sectors and not the drive itself.
Does chkdsk tell you about bad sectors?

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