harddrive problems

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I have a Samsung F1 1TB which recently started going into PIO mode, I uninstalled/reinstalled the IDE channel driver which rectified the problem.

In disk management it tells me the drive is Healthy(at risk), So I have tried using error checking, Hdd regenerator and backing up the data and do a format on the drive. None of this has gotten rid of the Healthy(at risk) status of the drive.

any ideas? Should I bin the drive? Is the drive fine and it's just windows playing up?

 

[ChrisLX200]

Have you looked at the SMART record for this drive (use SpeedFan or HD Tune).

If nothing shows as a problem in the SMART record then open a command window and type:
Chkdsk /r
This will test the disk for surface errors.

The message you have indicates some i/o errors occurred reading the disk.

 

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I seem to have gotten rid of the message now

I had to reactivate the drive. Whatever that means.

So all that scanning and formatting was probably for nothing.