On my HP DV9000 i suddenly wasn't able to open a folder. The drive would keep churning and churning, but with the access light off. The system became unresponsive.
I knew exactly what that meant so i booted HDD Regenerator and let it run. No trouble till the very end (99.34%), and then every single sector shows up as bad. It's done 336 already. With like 100.000 more to go...
Now, the data in that folder isn't critical. The data on the rest of the drive however... The drive is 250GB and it's a WD IIRC. Well, at least the bads are only at the end of the drive. That means i can simply shrink the partition a hundred megs or so and keep using it.
I knew exactly what that meant so i booted HDD Regenerator and let it run. No trouble till the very end (99.34%), and then every single sector shows up as bad. It's done 336 already. With like 100.000 more to go...
Now, the data in that folder isn't critical. The data on the rest of the drive however... The drive is 250GB and it's a WD IIRC. Well, at least the bads are only at the end of the drive. That means i can simply shrink the partition a hundred megs or so and keep using it.
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