Can I lock out a single hard drive partition?

commonman · Apr 7, 2013

Folks,
I have a 1 TB SATA hard that quit formatting at 75%. I partitioned it into one 500 GB partition and left the other half of the drive unformatted. The 500GB partition reads and writes perfectly. Can I now "lock out" the unformatted, unpartitioned portion and continue to use the hard drive? Thanks for your help.

Brett928S2 · Apr 7, 2013

Hi

Run a hard drive test in DOS... HIRENS BOOT CD etc, it sounds like a failing hard drive... do NOT do this if you have an SSD...

All the best Brett

popatim · Apr 7, 2013

simply leaving it un-partitioned will leave it inaccessible.
But a drive with problems will usually continue to degrade. If you plan to continue using this drive be sure to make regular backups of any crucial data.

commonman · Apr 19, 2013

Brett928S2 :

commonman · Apr 19, 2013

Thanks Brett. The info in Hirens was fantastic. Yep, failing hard drive. While there are ways to keep the drive working I am now convinced that it will continue to degrade. Your help was truely appreciated.

commonman · Apr 19, 2013

Tim,
Your answer was right on the money and I thank you for your trained insight. I am sorry that I could only select one answer as the best. Thanks, again.

popatim · Apr 20, 2013

Its not a problem, this isn't a competition. We're just here to try and help.

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