Re: HD problems on HP Pavillion ze5602ea notebook

Hi well whatdayaknow
I think this HD is running again............
I had only created a single 7 gig partition before, so the rest of the drive
was RAW and unformatted (it wouldnt format from XP setup remember) So after
creating another partition the size of the available space in Disk
Management I tried to format it, after half an hour it hadnt done anything
so I stopped it and then tried again same result. I then tried a quick
format for a change which completed in about 3 seconds on 30gig. Disk
properties reported partition full. Tried error checking which took a bit
longer..so when I got up next day drive E: shows 30 gig free space.

Guess that my OS will be more stable in error free spartition but what about
my work files, keeping them weel backedup but suppose your suggesting should
still replace as unreliable? You dont think might just be virus then??

Thanks for your help

Garyo
<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:4333f4f8.3728683@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Forget chkdsk. It is an extremely poor substitute for the manufacturer's
> hard
> drive diagnostics, which can be downloaded from the mfr's web site and
> run. If
> your drive is a Toshiba, use the Maxtor or the Hitachi diagnostics, which
> run
> with any brand of hard drive.
>
> If the drive has even one bad sector, it is no longer reliable, so replace
> it.
> 30GB drives are not terribly expensive any more.
>
> I have done at least 10 hard drive replacements in the past three months,
> with
> several notebook computers involved... Ben Myers
>
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:39:05 GMT, "Garyo"
> <gorr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>My HD seems to be experiencing some problems. About a month ago XP
>>suddenly
>>stopped starting, It would get to the XP logo screen then just black
>>screen.
>>
>>I tried to run XP repair console but it wouldnt allow me admin rights even
>>though it didnt ask for password although it did run CHKDSK and reported
>>one
>>or more unrecoverable problems?? It also seemed to be unable to see OS on
>>HD
>>from cd setup and wouldnt give option to repair only to install XP and it
>>just showed empty partition instead of OS.
>>
>>So I just installed XP and formatted with a fresh OS this lasted about 2
>>weeks until the same thing happened again, XP wouldn't start and wouldnt
>>appear in setup to repair. It was like there was no OS on notebook but
>>this
>>time I could see that the partition size was 38155 MB and there was 29855
>>MB
>>free space so the files were still there. Again CHKDSK said one or more
>>unrecoverable problem.
>>
>>So I though perhaps I could create a partition just for OS and Apps away
>>from bad sectors (I'm presuming this is what CHKDSK is trying to tell me)
>>and keep my files seperate.
>>
>>BUT XP setup would only formatted my basic 8000 MB partition to 95% and no
>>further so I thought I'd create another partition of 12000 MB and format
>>that instead but setup would always attempt to format the 8000 MB
>>partition
>>first resulting in nothing happening after it reached the 95% again. So I
>>removed the partitions and tried to format the 38 gig drive but format now
>>reached 20% of this before stopping (well didn't stop but wouldn't format
>>any more)
>>
>>So I concluded that 95% of 8 gig and 20% of 38 gig is where the problem is
>>occuring so I slightly reduced the size of partition to 7gig and it
>>formatted no problems.
>>
>>Then I installed XP and used disk management to create a 30 gig partition
>>in
>>the unallocated space left. However I still cannot get this to format or
>>even error check from inside XP.
>>
>>Does anyone know how I may make use of the remaining 32 gig of HD I have?
>>
>>And since it is less than 18 months old will HP give warranty on HD?
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Gary
>>
>>
>


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