Ever had one of those days?

Stormy · Jul 31, 2003, 01:19 AM

You get an old HDD working again, recover alot of what you thoughtwas long lost, but when you are deleting folders, one folder won't delete, preventing formatting of the drive? I had one of those days. I'm close to FDisking this monster Western Digital 20 gig drive.

krazy1 · Jul 31, 2003, 07:08 AM

Yep...been there.. done that...... Get yourself a copy of Killdisk..... that will fix that problem...... it is a free prog and works awesome.....
KillDisk

BWX · Jul 31, 2003, 07:21 AM

Why not Fdisk it in the firstplace? Just curious...

krazy1 · Jul 31, 2003, 07:45 AM

You can try FDisk.. I have found that at times FDisk just does not seem to get rid of the problem. KillDisk does a lowlevel format of the drive and cleans it up really good. If you buy the one version of KillDisk you can do up to 99 passes on the drive.....(NOTE: 99 passes is not needed and will take you several days). I usually use 1-3 passes depending on the drive... The free version of KillDisk only lets you use 1 pass. You can try to use FDisk and it may fix your problem. I just personally prefer FDisk.

Matth · Jul 31, 2003, 09:23 AM

For Western Digital, the maker's utility should be able to do FULL testing (data destructive) AND mask a few additional bad sectors.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
Data Lifeguard toiols including DataLifeguard diagnostic

If you are going to have any faith in that drive, you need to give it a thorough test - though that CAN turn over a bad drive ... ensure it has acceptable cooling while testing, as it is going to be run hard.

I don't mean fans blasting on it, but just not over-obstructed.

Stormy · Jul 31, 2003, 12:51 PM

Well guys, a simple utility called Partition Magic fixed up this beast, and now I'm using the 8mb it wouldn't use before on the drive also! The drive works great now.