Bad sectors (2) at start of drive, saveable?

[razer121]

Okay well looks like i'm coming back, so running the disk check in cmd mode before windows start (DOS right?) is showing up all okay but...

I flattened the HDD and reinstalled windows 7 home prem. This is where i have noticed after installing drivers and internet options (firefox and chrome to see which ran better) but i've noticed a fair few issues.

First the computer is so slow...i mean going back to good old celeron 400mhz slow o.O the response time is just shocking! and if left on for a while suddenly the HDD will start making a seek sound with lots of clicking in a constant motion for say about 1 min with no response from the mouse or anything whilst this is happening, it will then start responding so spoke with the girlfriend and she isnt happy with this so looks like a new HDD is the only option as i think the HDD has seen it's last day Any suggestions before i take the hammer to it?

[kompukare]

( Any suggestions before i take the hammer to it?

Well aside from the magnets in HDDs being cool (if you like magnets you have to prise off with a screwdriver if you stick them to steel), I think if possible an SSD might be a good idea just in case it gets dropped again!

But no, there's no magic way to fix such a drive AFAIK and even the urban myths for recovering data from such a drive generally don't work (freezer trick etc). So bin it before it causes any more stress.

[watercooled]

What you're describing is fairly common on a drive with a damaged surface TBH. When the heads pass over bad sectors, they tend to attempt the read a few times before giving up, stalling the disk, hence the clicking and poor performance. If it's happening over the whole surface then it's possible the heads sustained damage too.

Recovery methods are more about trying to get important data off the disk rather than trying to fix it. If chkdsk /r hasn't made the disk usable then I'd probably just give up with it. You'll probably now find the bad sector count in SMART has increased too.

If you do open the drive, it might be interesting (well, it would be for me anyway ) to open it up and see if you can see any platter surface damaged caused by the head crash.

Yeah the magnets are pretty powerful, but be careful not to let them slam into each other/metal objects at high speed as they can shatter.