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  1. Apr 1st, 2003, 02:38 AM #1
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    Dying HDD

    My HDD is dying... Windows 2000 partition doesnt want to startup anymore. Says Unbootable Device. Any Ideas how to repair it?

    I am suprised at this. It is only 2.5 years old. About 1.5 Mb of 20Gb is taken by bad sectors. My other 3 Gb HDD is 4 years old and still doesnt have any bad sectors on it.
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  2. Apr 2nd, 2003, 03:18 PM #2
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    Re: Dying HDD

    Well , I don't know if this will help but the idea is : all OSs have some boot files on the boot partitions . Might be some corrupt files or so . Did you try formating your system ?
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    rewrite MBR?
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    Originally posted by mastermind94
    rewrite MBR?
    before that he should TRY reformating the HD .
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  6. Apr 3rd, 2003, 06:14 PM #5
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    Do a low level format, hoepfully the bad sectors will get tagged as such.

    If there's no loose bits of stuff flying around in the drive, then it *should* live once again. However if you've noticed that the number of bad sectors has been increasing, then its very much time to get a new drive.
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