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Gutha Shiva

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Hi,
My hard drive is showing disk has bad block in event viewer..first hard disk was failed eventually the drive is not useful anymore and i brought newer one I have formatted it 3 times when its start showing disk has a bad blocks. This was my second hard disk showing same error after using 3 to 4 mnths. I don't know why its happening..

Please help me...


My rig is...
160gb Western digital hard drive
4gb ram transcend 1333mhz
Gigabyte 78lmt-s2pt
AMD FX 4300 Processor
 
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DeadRam
Did you run CHKDSK? This will tell you if the hard drive has failing media. A full format won't fix the hard drive. A full format won't prevent data loss. I don't think the motherboard is bad but CHKDSK will help you discover the problem. I think you bought old equipment. It might be only 8 months old to you but I doubt anyone still makes hard drives that small. Check the MFG date on the hard drive.
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Boogieman_WD

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Hey there, Gutha Shiva.

Sorry to hear about the issues you're experiencing with your drive. :(

Are the drives you're getting new ones or used ones?

Basically it might be a coincidence. What you could try is low level formatting the drive by using DLG (Data Lifeguard) and run both tests afterwards (Quick and Extended), to see if the same issue occurs. Here's how to do those things: How to low level format or write zeros (full erase) to a WD hard drive or Solid State drive & How to test a drive for problems using Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows. When you run write zeros, make sure that you use "Full Erase"

Note that the Write Zeros process is data destructive and you should definitely backup any important data which you might have in advance, so that you don't lose anything valuable.
Once the Write Zeros process has been completed, the drive would be in a state which is the same as if it was a brand new HDD and this means that you'd have to initialize, partition and format it before you are able to use it: How to initialize or write a signature to a secondary hard drive or Solid State drive in Windows and How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and Mac OSX.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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DeadRam

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160GB drives are old and very small. From Windows run CHKDSK C: /F /R. This command checks the disk and maps the bad blocks so Windows doesn't store data there anymore. I would get a new 1TB drive.
 
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Gutha Shiva

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Hi...

My present drive is brand new hard drive 8 months old. When i brought newer one I have installed windows 7. In win7 also showed same error after months later and i installed win10 few months back and issue is same.. Nearly i have formatted 4 time full format i have deleted the partitions.

Is problem with my configuration or my hard drive..


 
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DeadRam

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Did you run CHKDSK? This will tell you if the hard drive has failing media. A full format won't fix the hard drive. A full format won't prevent data loss. I don't think the motherboard is bad but CHKDSK will help you discover the problem. I think you bought old equipment. It might be only 8 months old to you but I doubt anyone still makes hard drives that small. Check the MFG date on the hard drive.
 
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