Bad sectors again? What gives?

[david]

This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and
installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard.
Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors
or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting
several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9
GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors
on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro
Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad
sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing
this software...what the hell gives?

What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd?
When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still
bad sectors.

Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive
(again!)
??

 

[Graham]

Have you downloaded the HD maufacturers diagnostics?
Run those and go from there.

regards
Graham

 

[david]

I went to Maxtor and downloaded their diagnostic tool, which said
there was no error - but when I run scan disk - it shows 9 megs of
errors - worse than that, I cannot do a thorough scan disk because of
the - write protection error - I assume the error is in a windows
file.

 

[Conor Turton]

This cannot be a coincidence! I just got a new MAtrox Harddrive and
installed the Pro Magic 6.0 that came with my Aopen 533N motherboard.
Just before installing, it did a scan disk and a defrag - not errors
or bad sectors. Now, after it installed and had a hard time booting
several times after the PRo Magic was installed, it now detects over 9
GIGs of Bad sectors - this is right after I had 25 GIG of bad sectors
on the last hard drive before I returned it - all after installing Pro
Magic 6.0! Worse than this, I only detected about 1 Gig of bad
sectors, went to reboot and found 9 GIGs! Nothing before installing
this software...what the hell gives?

What can I do about this? Does this sound like a virus on the OEM cd?
When I first had the problem, even after formatting, there were still
bad sectors.

Anyone have a fix or a workaround for this? Should I get a new drive
(again!)

**** all wrong with the old drive and if you can't see this you
shouldn't be doing anything with computers except using Word on them.

I'll throw you a bone.

1)Install first drive, it works fine.
2)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data
3)Install second drive, it works fine.
4)Install Pro Magic, it ****s up the data (STARTING TO SEE A
PATTERN????)
5)Use DOS based tool that doesn't load Pro Magic and it reports all A-
OK.

If you haven't worked out that Pro Magic is the root of all your
problems then you're a friggin moron.

There is nothing wrong with the drives. The partitions have got
corrupted from that sack of shit software you're insistent on
installing.

Wipe the drive, partition it again AND FOPR **** SAKE DON'T INSTALL
THAT PRO MAGIC SHIT.


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ICQ:31909763
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[david]

Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what
I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it.

 

[Smoker]

I went to Maxtor and downloaded their diagnostic tool, which said
there was no error - but when I run scan disk - it shows 9 megs of
errors - worse than that, I cannot do a thorough scan disk because of
the - write protection error - I assume the error is in a windows
file.

For years the hard drive manufacturers software has been useless when it
comes to reporting errors that you know you have., in particular, WD and
Maxtor.

 

[david]

Did it and unistalled the pathetic Pro Magic software - guess what? 0
Errors on the drive. What a waste of the day, but at least I know
now. Thanks to all that helped

 

[Conor Turton]

Thaks for the info. You said some funny stuff and it was exactly what
I needed to hear. Thanks, going to unistall it.

Apologies for the abuse. Shouldn't have done that. Spent first day
after I got married cleaning up the mess from yet another virus
infection on a couple of friends PCs.

Some friends....


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Conor Turton
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ICQ:31909763
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[Conor Turton]

For years the hard drive manufacturers software has been useless when it
comes to reporting errors that you know you have., in particular, WD and
Maxtor.

They're not useless, they work quite well. What you need to remember is
that their function is specifically to check the drive and that it's
reading and writing properly. They are not a tool to detect or repair
corrupt partitions or data.


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Conor Turton
(e-mail address removed)
ICQ:31909763
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[Podgee]

I had same thing u did, with PM, and I never use PM again, I give the PM the
flick, I will use Fdisk from now on

 

[~misfit~]

Apologies for the abuse. Shouldn't have done that. Spent first day
after I got married cleaning up the mess from yet another virus
infection on a couple of friends PCs.

Some friends....

Congrats on the wedding Conor. Shame about the 'honeymoon' though.