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02-23-2006, 07:52 AM
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Bad Sectors on WD 200 JB
I bought a 200 gig WD drive about 1.5 years ago, and I am now on my 5th drive. Every drive gets bad sectors. The last two got bad sectors while copying my data to them. This was right after opening the box.
Is there something that I am doing that is causing this? To copy data to the new drive, I am using my ATA cable from my CD burner. The cable isn't very long, so I just let my drive suspend by the cable while I copy the data from the bad disk to the new disk. Could this cause the problem (because it's not secured to anything)? I have two partitions on the drive, 180 gig and 20 gig (roughly). The error always occurs when I am copying data from my documents to the 20 gig partition. Windows gives me an error saying that I have a corrupt file. Then I run the WD diagnostics software, and it reports that I have bad sectors. What the heck is going on??? Thanks for your help. Scott |
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02-23-2006, 08:06 AM
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Bad Sectors
What is a bad sector? A bad sector is a small area on the disc drive that is reporting errors and cannot be accessed properly. New bad sectors, sometimes called grown defects, are often caused by some kind of physical damage. If a file or folder uses this sector, then the file is incomplete or corrupt because the bytes are not readable. Bad sectors can also be reported if the signal between your drive and host adapter is being misinterpreted. Bad cables can cause this. If you are using an ATA drive made in the last few years you should use an 80-conductor cable. Any ATA product that operates above UltraATA 33 requires an 80-conductor cable for proper signal integrity. ATA cables should also be less than 18 inches in length. http://www.seagate.com/support/ts/at...ad_sector.html
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02-23-2006, 08:27 AM
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You will probably have to RMA the drive. You should be able to since those things have a 3 year warranty.
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02-23-2006, 10:27 AM
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Make sure the cable your using is an 80-wire cable as oposed to a 40 wire, most optical drives ship with a 40 wire cable so if the cable is for your CD Burner it may be 40 wire.
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02-23-2006, 10:33 AM
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I do exactly what you are doing all the time - and that won't *cause* bad sectors. You are just having rotten luck.
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02-23-2006, 10:47 AM
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Are you overclocking anything? If so, that could be the cause.
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02-23-2006, 11:01 AM
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FWIW, I've had extremely bad luck with the WD BB and JB drives. Many of the ones I've seen have failed.
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02-23-2006, 01:58 PM
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No, I'm not overclocking anything.
It sounds like I am having a really bad string of bad luck. I thought the JB series was suppossed to be pretty good. Has anyone else had a lot of troubles. |
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02-23-2006, 05:13 PM
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Have you tried a NEW 80-conductor cable?
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02-25-2006, 03:43 PM
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I swear by Western Digital hard drives. Used tons over the years and never had any die on me. Maxtor on the other hand - I've had my fill of problems with them!  
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02-25-2006, 03:56 PM
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I've never had a problem with Maxtors, but have heard of plenty of people who do... the best thing to do is to go to http://www.storagereview.com/ and check out their Reliability Survey before you buy a drive.
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