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LiquidAcid · Local time: Aug 19, 2007, 10:01 PM

Check your system log for NTFS (or FAT32 if you're using it) errors. And start backuping...

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LiquidAcid · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 09:34 AM

And the usual stuff:
1) Don't do anything on this harddrive until you have a new one
2) If you really have to access it then do it read-only (so you don't accidentally destroy more of the filesystem)
3) If you're brave issue a short selftest via smartmontools (using a linux live disc) and check for the results

Tools that could help:
dd_rescue (to clone the faulty disc to the new one)

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LiquidAcid · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 01:08 PM

Or replace 3. by "sell on ebay"

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LiquidAcid · Local time: Aug 20, 2007, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by seanne

How old is the drive? What's the level of fragmentation like? And have you run chkdsk at all? If check disk doesn't report any problems with the disk it shouldn't be that serious of a problem - yet. Specially if it turns out you've been lax with defragging.

Huh? fragmentation doesn't produce bad sectors.

Originally Posted by seanne

Though, if you still want more reassurance you should download and run HDD Regenerator. This program will help you to repair any bad sectors on your drive. I've used the program many times in the past and I can attest to its effectiveness. If you download and run the free trial version it'll attempt to fix the first bad sector. It it was successful, hit up torrentspy for a cracked version and have it fix the rest of the drive.

Want to know what I think? This tool is fake. Anyone with a bit of hd technology knowledge knows that you won't get acess to the low level bits of the platters when using ATA commands. And you don't have anything else than ATA commands for access.

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LiquidAcid · 11:37 AM

@seanne: I only doubt that the application can recover/restore/regenerate/whatever sectors in some magical way. And I don't find any reliable source that analysed what this application really does. And as long as nobody can't show me a technique to gain low-level access to the physical media of the drive (PLUS: independent of the drive vendor) I won't believe what you, the developer or anyone else says.

I was speaking idiomatically.