Hi,

Recently, my 18 months old laptop has started acting up.

While I'm using it, it suddenly turns off and boot up for few seconds and says something like "windows has stopped unexpectedly

due to corrupted(sometimes) or bad sectors...."etc, and it repeats the same action until I manually turn it off,so I had my disk checked using"CHKDSK", but it says my hard drive is clean and has no bad sector.

Anyway, when my laptop is on "acting up" mode, there isn't anyway to get my computer booted up, only reformat and cleaninstall-just to be online for couple of hours.

Please, I need urgent help.

I even tried DBAN to clean drive, but it also says "... could not be completed due to bad sector on disk..."

Any advice 'd be greatly appreciated.

J.C

Hmmmm, make a drive image NOW that's NOW to avoid losing work. A modern drive that is reporting bad sectors is very sick indeed.

Sounds like your drive is on its way out, buy a new one and re-install

I have made all necessary backups and I am ready to wipe everything out.

I just want to give it one last shot.

Thanks.

Yup, I totally agree with OP advise. Take an image NOW and buy a new HDD. Do not try any "sector repair" before you haven't imaged your drive!

You will find utilities to fix bad sectors - but to be frank, these utilities can make things even more worse.

Yup, I totally agree with OP advise. Take an image NOW and buy a new HDD. Do not try any "sector repair" before you haven't imaged your drive!

You will find utilities to fix bad sectors - but to be frank, these utilities can make things even more worse.

Then, why "CHKDSK" is saying there is no bad sector?, I've checked twice today.

Do you think wiping out hard drive is not worth the hassle?

Thanks

Hi,

Recently, my 18 months old laptop has started acting up.

While I'm using it, it suddenly turns off and boot up for few seconds and says something like "windows has stopped unexpectedly

due to corrupted(sometimes) or bad sectors...."etc, and it repeats the same action until I manually turn it off,so I had my disk checked using"CHKDSK", but it says my hard drive is clean and has no bad sector.

Anyway, when my laptop is on "acting up" mode, there isn't anyway to get my computer booted up, only reformat and cleaninstall-just to be online for couple of hours.

Please, I need urgent help.

I even tried DBAN to clean drive, but it also says "... could not be completed due to bad sector on disk..."

Any advice 'd be greatly appreciated.

J.C

Try SPINRITE.

It helps fix drives with bad sectors by moving the information in the bad sector to a working one. It also marks the bad one so that it won't be used anymore.

Yup, I totally agree with OP advise. Take an image NOW and buy a new HDD. Do not try any "sector repair" before you haven't imaged your drive!

You will find utilities to fix bad sectors - but to be frank, these utilities can make things even more worse.

Then, why "CHKDSK" is saying there is no bad sector?, I've checked twice today.

Do you think wiping out hard drive is not worth the hassle?

Thanks

of course it is, I only gave my opinion, after 30years own experiences with computers... If you have important data to protect - don't go any risk.

Buy a new one now. If a modern drive is reporting bad sectors to you there are lots more bad sectors hidden away that you don't know about.

HDD Regenerator is a way to go!

Most (app. 80%) of the drive errors are not hardware related! From experiences over a bunch of years, using the above mentioned software brings "back" a lot of those damaged drives to just a normal "live"!

HDD Regenerator isn't deleting any data form any partitions on that drives, that software is just doing a new degausing of the surface's of the disk's inside. It doesn't matter what Format or whatsoever that HDD contains.

Cheers.

HDD REGENERATOR says on its web site:

Download free demo version and try to regenerate the first found bad sector . The main purpose of the unregistered demo version is to display the report which contains information about the possibility to regenerate the entire disk by means of the registered full version. If the first found bad sector has been successfully regenerated , then you can use the registered version to regenerate all bad sectors on your hard drive. If the first bad sector has not been successfully regenerated, then replace your hard disk drive as soon as possible".

The registered version will cost you around $ 60.- !

Hello guys,

I'm so glad that I'm finally back online again and really appreciate for the advices have been given.

Here goes how I managed myself to be back online.

After submitting my last post lastnight, my computer went blue-you know what I mean.

So,

1. I tried to wipe out all data from the HD using DBAN, but failed.

2. Cleaned HD using "hard disk wipe tool" which runs on windows-it actually cleaned the HD while OS was running(including OS)

3. Boot up from "gparted live cd" and delete all partitions and recreated them which took more than five hours.

4. Reinstalled OS and it's up and running.

I'd like to make sure this rather disastrous situation is occurred because 1. my HD is it's way out,or 2. maybe virus? before tossing it off the bin.

Thanks again, I love ThaiVisa.

J.C

ps: Thanks very much for your PM bartender100.

If in doubt, buy a new hard drive and throw the other one away. They're cheap!