Hi,

 

Doing a backup and it says it can't read some of the drive. I've had no errors using XP in normal usage, just backing up.

 

Can anyone suggest a good hard drive diagnostics to run to check my drives?

 

Thanks

 

Vijay

Have you tried running chkdisk ?

 

Run it first without telling it to fix so that you guage what the problem is....

Hi Tony,

 

Just ran it and it found some segmants unreadable.

Best to ask it fix the errors. You should be able to back up OK after that.

Cheers. How do I do that?

 

Just read a few pages from Google and it suggests the HDD is failing??

Chkdsk should have an option to fix any problems found. Just tick the option and it should do the trick.

It could be - see how many bad sectors you've got and take it from there... take a back up now though, a drive can go pretty quickly if it's failing.

 

If the sector is physically damaged, it will be marked as bad - ok if it's just the odd one, but not good if it's the beginning of the end!

Taken a back up but there's a couple of files (pictures) it can't access.

 

Ran chkdsk/f and it booted back up into windows without stopping/reporting any errors. Chkdsk is still saying there's errors :(

 

Is there anything I can do or should I replace the drive?

 

Cheers

 

Vijay