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Deer Slayer · 09-09-2005

You're SCREWED, you shouldn't have replaced that sector with all zeros. Now you windows install is DONE, you need to grab any critical files, and send the drive off for an RMA. The drive should not have any bad sectors, so the drive itself is also bad, so you should RMA it. You'll need another hard drive, or somewhere to store the data while your drive is RMAed. Then it's just a matter of copying what you need.

09-09-2005	#5 (permalink)
Deer Slayer CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Michigan USA Posts: 385	Re: Having problems with a bad sector on my hard drive that will not let windows XP boot? You're SCREWED, you shouldn't have replaced that sector with all zeros. Now you windows install is DONE, you need to grab any critical files, and send the drive off for an RMA. The drive should not have any bad sectors, so the drive itself is also bad, so you should RMA it. You'll need another hard drive, or somewhere to store the data while your drive is RMAed. Then it's just a matter of copying what you need. __________________ My System: P4 2.8b @ 3.44 (165x21), GA-8INXP, XFX 6600GT @ 580MHZ GPU & 1.18GHZ MEM, HYUNDAI L90D+, SBLIVE, 500W FORTRON BLUE STORM, MAXTOR120GB 8MB CACHE, MAXTOR300GB 16MB CACHE, 4x KVR400X64C25/256 @ 330 (2-2-2-5 2.7v), NEC3500A, SOHD-16P9S, LTR-52246S, CHIEFTECH CASE.