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Saving an injured Hard Drive
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Posted by: d!g!talhardcore
No I didnt stomp it or smack it, just... kinda abused 
Ok, When I had my old motherboard I wasnt getting any video so I had everything unplugged and I was messing with things to see if it would come back. Unfortunately I did not unplug the HD. So now I have a Western Digital 30GB drive with massive bad sectors because of not shutting down properly.
I was wondering if there I could still salvage this drive. I dont care if I dont get the whole 30GB back. The only thing on it is an install of XP but nothing else is on it. Could I just slave it on a computer, format it, then do a disk scan to see if it can fix errors?
Posted by: uh...ok
Low-level formatting usually finds and marks bad sectors automatically, so it should work.
Posted by: d!g!talhardcore
You're avatar is correct. How do I do a low level format?
Posted by: redwench
just dont put anything important on it. use it for mp3s or other junk thats replacable.
Posted by: uh...ok
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Originally posted by d!g!talhardcore
You're avatar is correct. How do I do a low level format?
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Thanks for the insult, ass.
j/k 
(If you look carefully, the arrow points to my name.)
Posted by: taco_fox
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Originally posted by d!g!talhardcore
You're avatar is correct. How do I do a low level format?
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For a WD drive, I guess you can use DLG Diagnostic
Posted by: d!g!talhardcore
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Originally posted by uh...ok
Thanks for the insult, ass.
j/k
(If you look carefully, the arrow points to my name.)
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Well if you wanna get technical, it points to your post number :P
You're probably a lot more smarterer than I am.
Thanks for the tip Radar, i'll fark around with it and see what I can dig up.
Posted by: uh...ok
Oh wait, you're on Umbra.
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