Shirley Crabtree Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 I have my sisters poorly PC sat in front of me and I need some advice.It's been crashing a lot lately with a bsod and error "Partmgr.sys" and "Windows needs to shut down your PC to prevent damage" (Or something along those lines :blink: )She tried to reformat it (XP OS) but it kept failing so I'm now trying.I get as far as 6% formatted and it just hangs.My guess is the hdd is dead and she needs a new one.Does that sound about right or might I have overlooked something?Cheers.Shirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 I think your diagnosis is correct :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirley Crabtree Posted November 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Hmmmm Update.I tried again and it stuck at 0% for about 5 minutes.....The whizzed really quickly up to 100%....And a BSOD :("Setup was unable to format the partition.The disk may be damaged...etc etc.Time for a new HDD.Cheers -pops-Shirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirley Crabtree Posted November 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 OMG the choices :SShe's on a pretty limited budget...These are at my local PC shop:-80GB EXCELSTOR / HITACHI HARD DRIVE, 7200 RPM, 2MB CACHE, ATA-100, 3 YR WARRANTY. £41.00 MAXTOR 80GB, 7200RPM, 2MB CACHE, ATA-133, 1 YR WARRANTY. £40.50 SAMSUNG 40GB, 7200 RPM, 2MB CACHE, ATA-133, "" 3 YR WARRANTY "". £38.98 SEAGATE 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE, "" 5YR MANUFACTURES WARRANTY "" , ATA-100. £37.95 SEAGATE 80GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE, "" 5YR MANUFACTURES WARRANTY "", ATA-100. £43.75 Are Seagate any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Hi Shirl Yep! Seagate are excellent drives Though my personal preference is for the Maxtor drive. See if you can find one with 8 MB Cache for the same price or slightly more.[Edit] 80 Gb Maxtor 7200 rpm 8 MB cache £55.00 at my local shop.Anglian internet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 As a last resort, have you tried zeroising the drive? If you go the manufacturers web site you might be able to download the appropriate software. I've done this in the past for IBM and Seagate. In both cases they have managed to resurrect dodgy drives. However, in one case the IBM one said it's duff. or words to that effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Shirl. Further to my post above. Have you run a chkdsk on the drive to make sure its beyond help!Last week I was reading in the other place about several people having trouble formatting drives that had been first formatted with NTFS. They couldn't get the drive to format either from the XP disk or from a 98 boot floppy. One member posted a link to a download disk that will overcome the problem so I'm looking for the info now.PS: The message received on trying to format was an error number then "Windows needs to close down to prevent damage" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Shirl - I'm currently running 4 x Excelstors.Oldest has just hit 2,210 hours of use (788 boots) - SMART settings (all 100%) are attachedThey seem quiet, cool + fast enough for me ! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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