Moto Guzzi
[H]ard|Gawd
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- Aug 9, 2002
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Hi, My HP Laptop HDD throw two HHD Bad Block errors recently.
It only did this when I tried to copy a file over to an external HDD.
-What happens is it copy it somewhere halfway, then explorer hangs, get error bad block for main drive.
-If try to copy the file over to itself, same thing happens(Two files).
-I can rename it.....It does not change position on disk.
-I can delete it.
-The file SIZE is what it was suppose to be.
So it happened again with another file. So after some thinking, I decided instead of running checkdisk & delete it, I am going to rename the file to="Bad Block-Do not Delete this file". My theory is it will keep the bad block occupied so its not used.
-So far a month and I did not see another bad block again.
-I can repeat this for another 5 files if they show up to fill bad block if necessary on disk, then give up on this.
Not sure how this may end, anybody did something similar-?.
It only did this when I tried to copy a file over to an external HDD.
-What happens is it copy it somewhere halfway, then explorer hangs, get error bad block for main drive.
-If try to copy the file over to itself, same thing happens(Two files).
-I can rename it.....It does not change position on disk.
-I can delete it.
-The file SIZE is what it was suppose to be.
So it happened again with another file. So after some thinking, I decided instead of running checkdisk & delete it, I am going to rename the file to="Bad Block-Do not Delete this file". My theory is it will keep the bad block occupied so its not used.
-So far a month and I did not see another bad block again.
-I can repeat this for another 5 files if they show up to fill bad block if necessary on disk, then give up on this.
Not sure how this may end, anybody did something similar-?.