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HDD Utility (Read 194 times)

Feb 6^th, 2004 at 6:46pm

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Each HDD mfgr has a utiltity to do two things:
Test the HDD for drive errors.
Zero out the HDD in part or full.

Newer HDD's cannot be low level formatted. Factory job. They can be made ready for OS in factory formatted state by zeroing out the drive.

Download the utility to C and .exe into a formatted floppy.
Boot to the floppy and run the utility. Quick or Advanced for full diagnosis.

I ran both Quick and Advanced no errors. Since new HDD was installed I ran zero entire drive. Failed near completion. Ran Quick and found error with recommendation for another reformat to zero. Chose by sector and it failed. Important Point: Copy failure screen by hand including failure code.

Went to HDD mfg and by ser no found drive warranty expiration date Jan 05. Filed RMA. Critical piece of info was failure code. Within minutes RMA number. Mfr picky on packaging. I used black foam.

12 days later "Serviciable Used Part" arrived.

Shipped 60G, UDMA 100 got back 80G UDMA 100

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Reply #1 - Feb 8^th, 2004 at 12:57pm

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sorry to hear that buddy... Sad

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Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2004 at 12:15am

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What newer drives? You mean you can't whack an old '98 startup disc in and partition and format them?

Have you tried it?

When did this happen?

Tell us more please.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2004 at 11:17am

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The newer drives can be partitioned but the past practice of low level formatting from a floppy is gone. Current is to zero out the drive to the mfg low level format. Done with the Utility. When? Don't know but it really doesn't make any difference.

Get the Utility for your drive. The explanation is at the mfg website. Mine is IBM made by Hitachi.

The drive failure turned out not to be a big deal as I was able to burn my directories in Safe Mode. Key is that broadband makes the patch and update task fast and easy. Also I reinstalled XP and authenticated just like initial install. No MS interference. The only problem I had was trying to install the wrong Creative drivers.

Also satisfied with the warranty replacement. No issues with the mfgr.

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Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2004 at 10:52pm

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glad to hear that you got it figured out and workign allright...

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