Why can't it load the repair mode from the dvd? It should. Make sure you're booting from the disc (F8). Messed up boot files can usually be easily fixed from there.
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It keeps getting worse, without ever touching or using the drive. It's just sitting there, formatted and unused, yet still puking out errors from time to time. It's dead to me.
It's an empty drive. I put it offline when it spouted its first errors, so I'm basically just playing with it. The bad sectors are increasing and windows regularly runs a CHKDSK at startup if I used it for a bit, which is annoying. I'll leave it in case I need some extra storage some day, but...
Thanks, I hadn't thought of that. But the lifeguard application seems to have an unsolved problem, in that it returns false positives on cable errors, so I can't use it. It's not uncommon.
Having done the benchmarks a whole bunch of times, and copying lots of random crap to the drive, the bad...
Thanks, on the CrystalDiskInfo website, it doesn't say at all what the software is or does, but it turns out it only reads out status information. It reports a bunch of bad sectors. HD Tune seems to come close to what I really need. It does do benchmark tests, but no reliability torture test. I...
I have a 320gb SATA2 drive that I suspect of failing. I'm looking for a sure way to pinpoint the cause; It could be the SATA/IDE controller, the SATA port, the SATA cable or the drive itself. I think I've ruled out the cable by running the Windows 7 error check tool (hard drive properties >...