Thread: Western Digital 500GB hard drive

A friend bought the system unit. In the assembly of the screw was this brand.
The model will write later, after lunch.
First, such a story happens.
Broke hard to two volumes
30 GB and everything else to another.
The first bug occurred in two weeks.
Throughout the drive D: \ away absolutely all of the information.
The structure of folders and files are still left.
In the system log you will be warned that the error occurred during an exchange transaction page on the HDD.
He came yesterday to a friend.
OS Windows XP SP2.
There is suspicion on the HDD.
How to identify problems with the HDD?
What tools will help to identify bad sectors or clusters?

You also want to Diagnosis and not speed.

You can also take advantage of universal programs such as Victoria and MHDD.

BAD block on disk is only one.
I.e. where it is 0.01% - 0.05%.
Is there any sense to apply the guarantee and whether due to a BAD block down the system and remove the massive amounts of data???

I think it's worth a treat once already with the HDD issue. A BAD 1 block to say I have an old HDD 40 GB, I think Seagate, there are also a few blocks BAD, so now he has to periodically fly Windows XP. Especially if those BAD blocks will fall on the system partition, i.e. if they are at the beginning of HDD.