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KillerShots · June 7th, 2003

I checked my event log after resetting and it told me that HD 2 had bad blocks... I let it try to format overnight and it never got past 5%. I was able to format both of my other drives completely, and the RAM should be fine (I've been using it for over a year).

EDIT: OK, a low-level format worked - I successfully formatted the drive(s) and can use them... I'm crossing my fingers, tho, on whether or not it will stay good

EDIT2: Argh, the same happened to my primary (80G) hard drive. I've marked the bad sectors on that as well, and am crossing my fingers... It would really suck to have to replace them both

The third drive seems fine tho (It had some bad sectors that I let Linux fix about 8 months back)

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Last edited by KillerShots; June 7th, 2003 at 20:11.

June 7th, 2003	#4 (permalink)
KillerShots War Games coder Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 1,925	I checked my event log after resetting and it told me that HD 2 had bad blocks... I let it try to format overnight and it never got past 5%. I was able to format both of my other drives completely, and the RAM should be fine (I've been using it for over a year). EDIT: OK, a low-level format worked - I successfully formatted the drive(s) and can use them... I'm crossing my fingers, tho, on whether or not it will stay good EDIT2: Argh, the same happened to my primary (80G) hard drive. I've marked the bad sectors on that as well, and am crossing my fingers... It would really suck to have to replace them both The third drive seems fine tho (It had some bad sectors that I let Linux fix about 8 months back) __________________ Primary CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Mobo: Biostar N4SLI-A9 RAM: 2G Crucial (DDR400) Video: eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX (512M) Audio: HDA X-Mystique HD(s): Maxtor 300G SATA2, Samsung 400G SATA2 OS(s): WinXP x64 Pro, Vista x32 Ultimate, Gentoo x64 Monitor(s): Primary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Secondary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Tertiary - Zenith 42" Plasma TV (1024x768 res) Many other machines... sig too short Last edited by KillerShots; June 7th, 2003 at 20:11.