Hard drive problem

BAD SECTORS
When a hard drive has bad read/write sectors it means the magnetic oxide layer on the disc platters are failing. Before you made an image of the hard drive you should have ran Error Check on the C Drive. This checks and locates the bad sectors and moves the data to an undamaged part of the disc platters and then locks out that bad sector so data cannot be written on the bad sector.
I recommend you do a fresh Windows install on your new hard drive to fix this problem and install the laptop's device drivers plus your programs and data before the hard disk fails completely.

You need to format your hard disk. Please note that formatting will erase all you data from the hard disk and all the software including the Operating system.

If you have your OS master CD you can insert it in the cd/dvd drive and restart the laptop. This will detect the OS CD and try to install it. In the installation process there is an option "Format your hard drive". You should select that option. Then it will format, mark the bad sectors, create a new boot sector and install the OS. You will be just fine.

If you go ahead and format the hard drive, fromatting will lock out these bad sectors.
Bad sectors can indicate that the hard drive is wearing out especially if the number of bad sectors increase as you use the hard disk and if this is the case then back up your data regularly so you won't lose your data when this hard drives fail completely. I would consider retiring this hard drive ASAP.
Bad sectors are usually cause by the magnetic oxide layer on the platters wearing out or breaking down.

Bad sector on hardisk there two kinds of that is software and physical. physical badsector caused from plate of hardisk damage is caused by dirt, fallen down, collided, to be incised, etc. While software badsector can be caused when hardisk busy sudden die, cause of usually broken electrics current.

For the bad sector damage of physical of hardisk, we require a really of expert to repair the hardisk. While damage of software we can repair xself use software or tool. One of the software which can be used to repair bad sector on hardisk that is HDD Low Level Format Tool.

Using this software hardisk can be low level format. Require to be paid attention that using low level format on a hardisk, causing all data in hardisk will lose and cannot be recovery again. But this way will be more effective eliminate sector bad.

HDD Low Level Format Tool Support Hardisk SATA, ATA or SCSI, can is also used on removable media like flashcard, flasdisk and etc. To run this software is very easy, that is :

• Download HDD Low Level Format Tool from the link above and install it till finish.
• Run HDD Low Level Format tools
• Select a hardisk which will repair then click continue.

Select LOW-LEVEL-FORMAT tab", if you sure To format the hardisk click "format this device" button and await till finish. ad for hardisk repaired hence required time will longer.
HDD LOW format level can be download from following link,
http://hddguru.com
note : If on hardisk have detected badsector, before doing above steps, first step to backup all existing important datases

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1 Please install the operating systems in this hardisk 2. Set BIOS to boot from the New System 3. still it fails, there is an issue with boot sector of your hardisk.

hi,there...why try again to reinstalling the XP first check your XP CD is the cd in good condition?your cd/dvd drive is good?...when XP ask to formatting hard disc chose " format with NFS (normal)" maybe takes a long time to wait..but let it work...if every thing ok (your hard disc is fine) the process will countinue normally... but if in the process stopped/stuck in the midlle/ hang that's indicate a bad sector are at your hard drive...you must repair bad sector area first to the expert one..than you can use this hard disc again....good luck..

You must run scandisk utility in windows to fix problem. Go to C: drive >> properties >> tools >> choose error checking >> select automatically fix errors >> then start >> 
If proplem persists you must format the C drive there may be less chance of bad sector recovery...
Or contact your manufacturer tech support if your hardisk in warramty period.

I suggest puting your hdd on another computer, full format it again, and scan it for bad sectors.Also, searching for a program that repairs bad HDD sectors, the windows default erros scan could not be very helpful if there are many bad sectors.

This issue is often caused by either an incorrect setting in bios or a bad boot device, such as a bad hard disk drive. To resolve this issue, run scandisk to check if the hard drive have develop a bad sector. Double click mycomputer and right click drive C: and select properties,tools,check now and check the the two options in the check this option windows and reboot your computer. During the reboot of computer the scandisk is check your harddisk after the scandisk finished scanning you can read the result if you see the bad sector or cluster found it's mean that your hard drive is damage in you need to replace it to correct the error. But if no bad sector found try to remove the software or hardware that you installed before the problem is occured go to control panel then add and remove software. if you have a registry scanner software like pctools registry mechanic try to run it to fix the problem in the registry.

You cannot recover bad sectors. Your disc is damaged and the drive has removed the bad sectors from being writable. You need to replace your hard drive asap before it breaks entirely. You're going to lose all your remaining data on the disc if you do not back it up immediately. Good luck, Peter