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by nascarfan999
Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:13 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them
Replies: 4
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Re: Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them

I appreciate the reply. I did end up buying a new hard drive for the laptop, and it's been running for 1 1/2 weeks w/o any problems. Part of me wanted to go get a netbook, but glad I saved the money.
by nascarfan999
Sun Jul 11, 2010 7:18 pm
Forum: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them
Replies: 4
Views: 12872

Re: Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them

I appreciate the reply. I have tried formatting it multiple different ways over the last week and each time I receive an error message while it tried to install windows, but windows does actually install. However, within 2-3 days it will no longer boot up properly and I have to format it again. The ...
by nascarfan999
Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:08 am
Forum: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting
Topic: Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them
Replies: 4
Views: 12872

Using UBCD to identify bad HDD sectors and avoid them

I have a Toshiba laptop with at least part of the hard drive in it that is bad and am trying to figure out if I can salvage at least part of the hard drive to continue using it. I had read that I could use programs on the UBCD to identify which sectors of my HDD are bad and then create a new partiti...