![]() If it has no warranty left (warranties vary some are 1 yr, some 3, and a few are 5) then you will need to buy a new hard drive. I have not heard of any "permanent" fix for a bad hard drive. Save it somewhere: the 'cloud', flash drive, another hard drive.That noise you hear is the drive starting to die and the test confirmed it. In my experience, anytime one of WD's or Seagate's hard drives fail their test it is failing or about to, and needs replacement. There are issues and workaround for drives beyond 2 TB but it is easier not to go beyond such capacities in the first place.I can't help you with the HDDScan, but you DO need to call WD if that HD is still under warranty. I recommend using modern SATA drives, XP detects them fine and can handle large capacities. FDISK, the partition utility that ships with DOS and early version of Windows cannot handle more than 64 GB, even if the BIOS supports larger drives.įor Windows XP you do not need to worry about any of this. Strange things happen when you use DOS or early versions of Windows to partition larger hardrives, for example a 320 GB drive. Most BIOS support 32 GB and so do DOS and early versions of Windows. This makes them perfect for retro gaming PCs. I use SeaTools for DOS to put a 32 GB capacity limit on modern drives. I have tested it with various Seagate and Samsung drives, quite recent ones as well with 2TB capacity. The DOS version of SeaTools should support Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung drives. Use an image burning software to burn it onto a blank CD-R.
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