Bad Sectors?

TheGedi · 10 Feb 2011 at 23:33

Hey, i recently bought an old second hand Hard drive from ebay for a pound xD said it worked which it does, but after a few scans it has 20% bad sectors, and was wondering if there is a way to repair via software, or to use the remaining good sectors? I tried the HDD Regenerator (think it was Maxtor or something) that was meant to fix it, but some way through fixing it the whole computer just turned off, and then decided to take my Samsung F3 off the Primary Boot and swap to my USB, but i fixed that.

Can anyone help/Shine some light?

Thanks
Ross

me227 · 10 Feb 2011 at 23:37

Thats a fair amount of bad sectors. I certainly wouldn't be trusting that hard drive.

Not much you can do about it.

TheGedi · 10 Feb 2011 at 23:57

me227 said:
Thats a fair amount of bad sectors. I certainly wouldn't be trusting that hard drive.

Not much you can do about it.

Is there anything i can do to salvage the leftovers? Not going to put any particular important stuff on it, just assorted other files i would like a spare copy of.

gamesaregood · 11 Feb 2011 at 00:20

Nope, its dead I'm afraid.

Presume its out of warranty?

TheGedi · 11 Feb 2011 at 00:30

gamesaregood said:
Nope, its dead I'm afraid.

Presume its out of warranty?

It had 3 years, since 2006 :L Worth a try for a quid.

gamesaregood · 11 Feb 2011 at 00:31

Depends if it was a quid + P&P but its sounds like you've bought a dud...

TheGedi · 11 Feb 2011 at 01:00

gamesaregood said:
Depends if it was a quid + P&P but its sounds like you've bought a dud...

Well then £5.50

but now im