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Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk?
In replies to previous posts I've been told that when clunking comes, this normally means your hard drive's gone, time to give up and buy a new one! Well... having wasted several days of my life trying to fix my PC... and finally reaslising the hard disks were causing the problems... I've ordered a new one (Seagate - with 5 year warranty, no more damn Maxtors!). I've got three hard drives. I can still access them and read and write files. (The only thing I can't do for some bizaare reason is install and run XP - ALL of them just clunk and freeze or reeboot. Whereas other hard drives work fine with the system!) I'm just planning to put the hard drives in external boxes and use them as extra storage space. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. OM
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On 20 Feb 2005 15:59:48 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote: Did you try the Maxtor utilities to see if they are OK?>Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? > >In replies to previous posts I've been told that when clunking comes, >this normally means your hard drive's gone, time to give up and buy a >new one! > >Well... having wasted several days of my life trying to fix my PC... >and finally reaslising the hard disks were causing the problems... I've >ordered a new one (Seagate - with 5 year warranty, no more damn >Maxtors!). > >I've got three hard drives. >I can still access them and read and write files. >(The only thing I can't do for some bizaare reason is install and run >XP - ALL of them just clunk and freeze or reeboot. Whereas other hard >drives work fine with the system!) > >I'm just planning to put the hard drives in external boxes and use them >as extra storage space. > >Any feedback would be appreciated. > >Thanks. > > >OM thanks for all the replies.
erm... i have downloaded the maxstor util... and it didn't find anything... a clean bill of health given. (everything else on my pc: memory, hard disk etc work fine without the faulty hard drives.)
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"OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote in message I had a feeling my old school maxtor 80gb ATA drive was packing in a few news:1108943988.396910.188870@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? > > In replies to previous posts I've been told that when clunking comes, > this normally means your hard drive's gone, time to give up and buy a > new one! > > Well... having wasted several days of my life trying to fix my PC... > and finally reaslising the hard disks were causing the problems... I've > ordered a new one (Seagate - with 5 year warranty, no more damn > Maxtors!). > > I've got three hard drives. > I can still access them and read and write files. > (The only thing I can't do for some bizaare reason is install and run > XP - ALL of them just clunk and freeze or reeboot. Whereas other hard > drives work fine with the system!) > > I'm just planning to put the hard drives in external boxes and use them > as extra storage space. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > OM > months back someone here told me of a util called PowerMax its a maxtor util like JS says try the utils they reveal all
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"OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote in message I do a lot of experimenting and *no* lo level formatting will not fix a news:1108943988.396910.188870@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? > > In replies to previous posts I've been told that when clunking comes, > this normally means your hard drive's gone, time to give up and buy a > new one! > > Well... having wasted several days of my life trying to fix my PC... > and finally reaslising the hard disks were causing the problems... I've > ordered a new one (Seagate - with 5 year warranty, no more damn > Maxtors!). > > I've got three hard drives. > I can still access them and read and write files. > (The only thing I can't do for some bizaare reason is install and run > XP - ALL of them just clunk and freeze or reeboot. Whereas other hard > drives work fine with the system!) > > I'm just planning to put the hard drives in external boxes and use them > as extra storage space. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > clunking drive...it's time to replace it. FWIW: I've lo-level formatted a number of old drives with a lot of bad sectors...and though lo-level formatting will often "fix" the drives... fairly often they just go bad again within a few weeks... I've only had a few drives that lo-level formatting really made the drive useful again. On 20 Feb 2005 15:59:48 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> yeswrote: >Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? > >In replies to previous posts I've been told that when clunking comes, >this normally means your hard drive's gone, time to give up and buy a >new one! > no brand is immune to failure, make backups from now on.>Well... having wasted several days of my life trying to fix my PC... >and finally reaslising the hard disks were causing the problems... I've >ordered a new one (Seagate - with 5 year warranty, no more damn >Maxtors!). > That's odd, run the Maxtor diagnostics.>I've got three hard drives. >I can still access them and read and write files. >(The only thing I can't do for some bizaare reason is install and run >XP - ALL of them just clunk and freeze or reeboot. Whereas other hard >drives work fine with the system!) On 20 Feb 2005 15:59:48 -0800, "OM" <om.newsgr***@gmail.com> wrote: No, it wouldn't fix a failing HD.>Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? Low level formatting will just do zero-fill to your HD and it wouldn't fix a physical damage HD. Download a diagnosis program from the HD maker site. -- WebWalker OM wrote:
> Will low level formatting rescue a clunking hard disk? Clunking is often caused by the driver chip(s) for the head positioner> I'm just planning to put the hard drives in external > boxes and use them as extra storage space. magnet failing, and the only true solution is replacement of the chip(s). Most Maxtors use 3 tiny chips for this that run very hot if not ventilated well, so be careful about installing drives into external boxes, and provide some air movement over these chips, either through gravity convection (mount drive vertically) or with a fan. 
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