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| 1347914 | 2013-07-03 09:48:00 | My 4.5yr old PC is starting to fall apart. Now a WD Black HDD has bad sectors so it cannot produce a Windows Image file. RMA possible? Do I use the disk error checking program to enable myself to get a disk image out of it. If not my image will be 3 months out of date. Edit - bad clusters. If that makes a diff ... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1347915 | 2013-07-03 09:57:00 | The Black drives have a 5 year warranty so you can get it replaced, just take it back to where you bought it from. The free WD Acronis may still be able to get an image of it depending on how bad the HDD is. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1347916 | 2013-07-03 10:18:00 | Active@disk Image can sometimes make an image of drive with bad sectors as well. use the bootable CD from the trial version. Download link - www.disk-image.com Installer & Bootable CD/USB. Size: 154 MB |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1347917 | 2013-07-03 12:06:00 | Thanks, I sent over an RMA request. Will try one of those solutions :) Just the OS volume, no files on it. | Nomad (952) | ||
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