Hard Disk problem

India
January 20, 2007 2:29am CST
I bought my computer 5 yrs ago and i've got bad sectors of 16 kb in c: and f:. I've formatted my system but while booting and many times while running hard disk makes a sound and system hangs. I've reinstalled windows but it's not working. My friends also have computers from 7-8 years but they didn't have any problems. What should i do?
4 people like this
12 responses
• India
22 Jan 07
I don't think the bad sector is the problem. Since you are telling that you hear lots of sound when booting, it could be a harware failure too, which is the worst case and inevitabily, you have to buy a new one. This happens when your Master Boot Record(MBR) is corrupted of bad. Try another command, boot in command promt as said in the post and run "fdisk /mbr" without "". This will reset your MBR. Then you can try scandisk and chkdisk. If all these don't work, it's a hardware error!
2 people like this
• India
25 Jan 07
That may fix it but I'll loose my data. Let me try some other things before that else, i'll have to back it up and use fdisk. Anyway, thanx.
@anex84 (465)
• Bulgaria
22 Jan 07
Listen, just go to http://www.gold-software.com/download7605.html and download HDD Regenerator. Don’t rush to throw out your disk and don’t think that your important information is irretrievably lost. Take advantage of HDD Regenerator – the unique program for regeneration of hard disk drives. HDD Regenerator will regenerate your hard drive by magnetic reversal. As a result, not readable damaged information will be restored. With all this going on, the existing information will not be lost! You can read more on at the given link.
1 person likes this
• India
25 Jan 07
Thanks i'll definitely try this out.
• United States
22 Jan 07
Hard drives are very affordable now a days. You can get a 400gb hard drive for about 150 bucks on sale if you look around. Its best to replace it, so you do not loose any un-replacable data, like pictures and videos and such :) thanks!
• India
25 Jan 07
Ya that's the last option but let me try to fix it else i'll have to buy a new disk :-(
@vertex (803)
• Philippines
20 Jan 07
Make a start-up disk. Once the ms-dos system is already running type format c: /f f means fix. so the bad sectors will be fixes easily
1 person likes this
• India
25 Jan 07
I tried that, it fixed bad sectors but that doesn't solve the problem
• Philippines
20 Jan 07
yeah use start up disk and boot your pc in drive a. after that use the comand scandisk or format c:/f
• India
25 Jan 07
I tried this but sorry to say, it didn't work.
• India
22 Jan 07
I have purchased My PC just 1 yr ago after 3 moths my Hard disk failed . But the PC was in Gurantee period . Parantu mera data ud gaya tha....
1 person likes this
• India
25 Jan 07
My computer's warranty expired years ago!
@blueman (16509)
• India
25 Jan 07
you've been the same hard disk for so long i think it is time to upgrade your harddisk or your computer, if your harddisk is showing you bad sectors then it is possible that you might have roughly used your computer.
• Romania
22 Jan 07
I think i have a cheaper solution to your problem.If you hard drive makes sounds and freezes the computer but if you restart it it works it the cable conecting the HDD to the moterboard.I have changed 3 cables because of this problem,try that and if doesn't work buy a new HDD.
• India
25 Jan 07
I think that may solve the problem. Let me try this out. Thanx man!
• Thailand
25 Jan 07
I have experienced the same problem months ago. If you say that you heard noises while running your pc chances are you have a hard disk failure. Its more likely that your hardisk is misaligned due to unleveled ground, frequent and sudden shutdown, brown outs or power failure and years of use. Formatting and/or scandisk won't solve the problem since your harddisk may be scratched or misaligned. I think the best think to do is back up your files and buy a new harddisk.
@alvinia1 (714)
• Romania
24 Jan 07
compuers - compuerscompuerscompuers
yor computer need a start-up disk
@masca11 (320)
• Romania
22 Jan 07
just buy a knew one it solves every problem. If the HDD makes a weird sound its unrepairable because you cant desmembrete a HDD to see whats wrong in fact you cant do nothing to a HDD it is what it is.
• India
25 Jan 07
That's the last option i have.
• India
25 Jan 07
man... old is gold... you listen this slogan. when computer are comes in the market its too much costly. so its all the parts are genuine. now days coputer are cheap so all the parts are not genuine as they are before. i have 9 computers in my office. 4 are p-iv and other 5 are p-i. every week i get prob. in p-iv, but in p-i i get prob. once in 2 months. so old is gold.