Bad sectors!

[uday9484]

hi
my 250gb sata hdd has bad sectors around 1000 in c drive, through disk checking and formatting it can to 4 , from that its not cleaning up, i visited seagate site and got SeaTools for DOS from it and took its data to another hdd & erased the disk completely(took around 3-4hours)
installed Win 7 in it , after that when i was copying previus backup data to d drive , had power failure and pc turned off when it is copying and again found bad sectoers in d drive and again had to delete the partition , i had not tested it as of now
what my query is , is it wise to continue with or replace it

[paroh]

replace as soon as possible

[Sarvesh]

First of all rerun Seagate tool Long test. It will replace and remap those bad sectors.

But before doing so - simply replace the "SATA cable" as well as "POWER connector cable" as they are responsible for frequent bad sector developments - I have solved lot of similar cases.

If you encounter frequent power failures in your area then it is better to have a UPS immediately instead of buying another hard disk and ruining it.

[rhitwick]

Originally Posted by Sarvesh

If you encounter frequent power failures in your area then it is better to have a UPS immediately instead of buying another hard disk and ruining it.

This is the first thing you should do...b4 any other h/w in ur PC die

[uday9484]

Originally Posted by Sarvesh

First of all rerun Seagate tool Long test. It will replace and remap those bad sectors.

yaa i will rerun Seagate tool Long test , at present no bad sector in any drive and win 7 working fine.

But before doing so - simply replace the "SATA cable" as well as "POWER connector cable" as they are responsible for frequent bad sector developments - I have solved lot of similar cases.

iam hearing this first time is this work out

If you encounter frequent power failures in your area then it is better to have a UPS immediately instead of buying another hard disk and ruining it.

yaa i had ,it holds around 15min and power didn't came in time

[Sarvesh]

Originally Posted by uday9484

yaa i will rerun Seagate tool Long test , at present no bad sector in any drive and win 7 working fine.

Good !!

Originally Posted by uday9484

iam hearing this first time is this work out

We all hear new things for the first time till we re-encounter similar situation. Every few years we hear about a new OS Like win98, winMe, win2000, winXP, Vista, Windows7 and something new in the coming years - When I was using "Sinclair" I never knew that one day I will be using Intel PC.

Originally Posted by uday9484

yaa i had ,it holds around 15min and power didn't came in time

If you know it cannot go beyond 15mins - why not SHUT DOWN the PC before it is too late.

[uday9484]

thanks buddy