Hard drive Question

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Wookie, May 30, 2005.

  1. Wookie

    Wookie Sergeant Major

    My system started running very slow a few days ago and I was in the middle of a good game of ut2004 that kept pausing suspiciously until it crashed with a cylinder redundecy check error, I knew I was in trouble. So this was a good excuse to go upgrade to SATA considering the next time I restarted files were missing. So I got my new stuff up and running, right now I have easyrecovery getting my files off the old drive

    My question is, Is the old drive still going to be usable with a format or something? I know the error I got means data corruption I dont know if the drive is bad or if something just happend to the file system or what not. Im hoping it is recoverable since it is a 120Gig Drive, that would leave me with my O/S running on SATA and two 120 gig drives extra :)

    If anyone has any similar experience or input i'd appreciate it, thanks.
     
    Wookie, May 30, 2005
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    best option is to use diagnostics and format with makers utility ( low level format ) and see if the drive is ok, I wouldnt initially use it for critical data for a while.
     
    DavidGP, May 30, 2005
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