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| Thread ID: 98068 | 2009-03-10 04:52:00 | Can i use this hard drive | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 755172 | 2009-03-10 04:52:00 | I had a 320Gb SATA drive that gave a disk read error and wouldnt boot, so i put it in an XP machine and used check disk to fix it.... would it be okay to use as a data drive, or shud i throw it out? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 755173 | 2009-03-10 05:01:00 | Youd probaly want to do a deeper scan of it first, I have a freeware programme on a disk around here somewhere which supposedly does that but I cant remember the name of it. It stress tested etc as well Does this sound familiar to anyone? Was something like stressdisk07 or something |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 755174 | 2009-03-10 05:05:00 | If i can get the name of it il use it, but i dont want to fill it up with files for it to die again and lose everything | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 755175 | 2009-03-10 05:05:00 | What brand is it? Seagate try this www.seagate.com WD try this support.wdc.com |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 755176 | 2009-03-10 05:08:00 | its a Samsung HD321KJ | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 755177 | 2009-03-10 05:10:00 | www.samsung.com Should do it, find your model in the list first |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 755178 | 2009-03-10 05:31:00 | Use seatools, even though it not samsung And use Speedfan to monitor/check the SMART status |
Blam (54) | ||
| 755179 | 2009-03-10 05:51:00 | Im using Barts Stuff Tester www.nu2.nu which writes data till i run out of free space.... *i think* | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 755180 | 2009-03-10 09:54:00 | Give it a full scan with whatever application samsung give you, and use Speedfan to check the SMART status online. But there are many other reasons why windows may not be able to read files on a drive. Faulty cabling or controller, RAM or other things (even virus) can cause problems. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 755181 | 2009-03-10 20:25:00 | wen i put it in an xp machine (as it originally was vista) the xp disk checker came up before i got into xp, and spent the better part of an hour fix the disk. at the end there was only 4kb in bad sectors..... is this good or bad? And the Bart Stuff Tester, did a sequential write, filled the drive and did a sequential read + compare, and had no errors....so i can be safe in say the disk is good? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
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