What is wrong with this hard drive?

8 Responses to What is wrong with this hard drive?

1. Stu C | July 31, 2010 at 12:29 am |

   Boot sector is broken

   You can try a repair from the Windows disk (assuming XP or later?)

   Sounds like the hard drive may be physically/permanantly damaged. They are mechanical devices and die eventually.

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2. ✔ | July 31, 2010 at 6:29 am |

   What error message does it give? Which program did you try? GParted?

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3. joe.attaboy | July 31, 2010 at 2:28 pm |

   Sounds like it’s just not able to do anymore writes. Could be a mechanical issue. Get your data off it (you did it the smart way) and use it for a doorstop.

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4. ravi | July 31, 2010 at 10:29 pm |

   try changing jumper @ hd from master to cable select or visa versa.

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5. Arun Agrawal - Ebizindia | August 1, 2010 at 11:29 am |

   At first, you should get into the BIOS program (generally accessed by pressing F1 or Del key while the computer is just starting up). In most modern computers, you will see an entry for the hard disk if your hard disk is readable (should be because you can read it with Linux).

   If there is a None entry there, please press enter or choose from the available selections to activate the hard disk and press F10 to save and restart.

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6. Mahesh D | August 2, 2010 at 7:28 am |

   What’s the error message??? It could be a faulty data cable.. Get a new cable and see if it solves the problem…. If the drive is a SATA drive, then change the port and see if the problem is ok…. If the problem is still there then you’re drive is probably faulty.

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7. Jeffrey M | August 3, 2010 at 6:48 am |

   your computer has picked up a mickey dll that has shot sheeted your format you may have to dump out the drive and stat over

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8. jerry t | August 4, 2010 at 8:31 am |

   The hard drive is probably unable to do any more writes. Time to copy everything you need and get a new hard drive. The linux live cd should have a program called gparted. It will inspect the drive and format it, if it is possible to salvage.
   Good luck

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