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i have four year old laptop. which is not formating. says bad secter and it is not getting on. and i am trying alot to formate

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  • Laptops
  • Sony
  • Storage
  • Hard Drives
  • Toshiba
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February 3, 2014 7:26:37 AM

i have four year old sony laptop. It has Toshiba MK3265GSXN 320 GB hdd which is not geting formate. It says bad secter and it is not getting on. and i am trying alot to formate my laptop but i couldn't..

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February 3, 2014 7:40:06 AM

replace the harddrive
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February 3, 2014 11:11:21 AM

If it's reporting bad sectors your HD is bad, and only going to get worse. it's possible to "fix" bad sectors, but it just hides the problem, since you're trying to format anyways, you're better off getting a new HDD.
But these topics are relevant and may allow you to "fix" your problem:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1795054/repair-h...
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/244568-32-repair-sect...
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1705362/bad-sect...
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