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bushwacka

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 14:30 Post subject: hdd failure	Quick Quote Quote

i've got a samsung f1 1TB hdd which is essentially my "work" drive...now since last week, the damn thing is giving me CRC errors when moving/copying files, read errors in winrar, photoshop crashes etc. - ran chkdsk, which found some errors, fixed them. ran it a second time, found nothing, everything seems fine. crashes/errors continue. - ran that error detection thingy from the drive properties dialog (which is essentially chkdsk iirc?), crashes halfway through, winxp freezes. - fired up spinrite. guess what? it crashed halfway through i think it's just some fauly sectors, because more or less all the old stuff i have on the drive works just fine. RMA is out of the question since the drive contains research data (which i'm a bit paranoid about) and the gutmann method crashed after salvaging the files left on the drive. so is there any other way to get it working properly again or should i call it quits?

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SpykeZ

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 16:19 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

There are PLENTY of apps out there that'll completely destroy any data left on that drive. A failing HD is a failing HD, really no way of fixing it.

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bushwacka

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 16:42 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

those apps all work the same way: overwrite multiple times until the memory effect is gone. doesn't matter which one if the machine crashes while trying to write on one of the faulty sectors

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todd72173

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 17:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I had same drive for about 2 weeks. The Samsung 1TB gave me same errors randomly. I was able to RMA it though. Its gone.. Dont bother fixing it. Those drives I read had many problems. Call it quits. I used KillDisk to destroy all my data on it before I returned it. RYZEN 5 2600\|RADEON 570\| \|ASRock X370 Killer\|DDR4@2800Mhz\|\|Corsair SPEC-05 Case\|AOC G2590FX 24.5''144hz 1ms\|

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Kamikaze666

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 18:35 Post subject:

my computer is makeing hiccup sounds, and then reboots....

failing HD too innit?

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VGAdeadcafe

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Posted: Thu, 15th Oct 2009 18:40 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Well, stick your head in there and find out where the sounds are coming from !

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0wen

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Posted: Fri, 16th Oct 2009 02:23 Post subject:

Kamikaze666 wrote:

my computer is makeing hiccup sounds, and then reboots....

failing HD too innit?

My serial ata Western Digital drive was making like a clacking sound when it was going out. I made sure to get a replacement drive and transfer all my files as soon as I could before it totally died. I lost some files where I guess the disc platters went bad but I was able to save most of my files.

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