sammorris i need ur help here m8 so, i have this WD 300GB USB HDD and its been stuffing up latly. well i plugged it into a damaged usb, which actualy got hot, so it short circuited right? but ever since then its been really annoying. sometimes i get delayed write failed, curropts (sorry i cant spell) and sometimes it takes ages to access folders on the hdd or it'll just freeze etc. anyway i was looking about and found stuff about these "bad sectors" and "track 0 bad disks" etc. and i wanted to know, is there any tools to repair this stuff? i would like to just empty it and just reformat it and put everything back to see if that'll just help but i only have a 80GB internal HDD. so im kinda stuck here. i need everything on that hdd!!! thanks for any help in advance. aaron
The first step you should take is to backup the drive's contents, then wipe and reformat it. That's quite a good way of getting bad sectors re-allocated.
ok well if its worth the effort, ill have to find someone with a big HDD, ill do it tanks sammorris ill get back with the results
