Hi all,

I need your advice about what should i do to fixed my problem. My HDD is 80GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE ATA100.

Recently i found error "The device, \Device\Hardisk0\DR0, has a bad block" in windows event viewer.

Then I run scandisk with option to test surface as well. Scandisk found some bad sector on my HDD. After scandisk, my assumption was after scandisk, this error should never show up anymore but I was wrong. This morning when I check at event viewer again, I see the same error again there. I'm really worried with this error because when I got it and run scandisk, my windows become corrupted. Many services can't be started anymore because of missing file so I have to repair my windows. I've repaired it 5 times already in 2 weeks

This morning before I went to work, I download HDD Scan and start the scan, I get 99 red block and several hundred green block and 3 bad block. I stop the scanning in the middle because I must go to office.

My question is what shall I do with my HDD to omit error at event viewer and with HDDScan result? I'm still newbie with HDD problem here and i guess red block is not good for my HDD, isn't it? can someone give me a step by step guide what shall I do to check and fixed my HDD problem?

Thanks before.

Hi Kalenq,

I would not trust this HD any more. In your case i would make a copy to a new harddisk and don't use this one any more.
If after a scan there start again bad sectors showing up, it means damage to the platter and/or head, so take my advice: Make a copy as soon as possible (unless your data is not important )

Dobre

the bad sector seems only exist on my drive C partition. All other partition has no problem at all. So I wonder what is wrong actually? Maybe like dobrevjetser said it is the platter which my C partition is there? Or is it actually bad sectors which are miss by windows scandisk?

I also read in one of the post here, someone said if his HDD has red block in HDDScan, then he will reformat his drive. So what action should i do when my HDD has 99 red block?

FYI, I just reinstall windows XP SP2 on my C partition with option full format to NTFS. (before reinstall I already know i have bad sector from scandisk).

I secured my data already with backup on CDs

kaleng
If your hard drive has 99 red blocks, then it is the right time to copy your data ASAP and trash it.

I had a Seagate Barracuda 80 GB HDD back in 2005, it was
purchased on May 14, 2005 and was sent back to Wal-Mart on June 2, 2005.


I sent it back to Wal-Mart, because one of the SMART monitoring utilities said that HDD failure is imminent!

Also, that HDD emitted a squeak when defragmenting!

Sounds like your HDD likely was just at a later stage.

I sent my Seagate Barracuda 80 GB (ST380013A) back to Wal-Mart before that could occur.