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thephanatik · 02-21-2008, 07:40 PM

I have a 500GB Western Digital Caviar SE which I used to backup everything. I noticed one of the program installers on my external was corrupted, so I ran checkdisk. It found tons of errors in all 3 steps I believe, and many in the MFT. I ran it 30+ times and continued to be riddled with errors.

I finally got fed up and formatted the hard drive via the format tool in windows. I figured this would solve the problem, but after copying some more files over to it, I just discovered the files are corrupted again.

Is this a sign of a failing hard drive? Is there a way to fix this? (Maybe format with Western Digital program that wipes it with all zeros?)

02-21-2008, 07:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
thephanatik Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP SP2	Hard Drive Failing? Checkdisk errors after format I have a 500GB Western Digital Caviar SE which I used to backup everything. I noticed one of the program installers on my external was corrupted, so I ran checkdisk. It found tons of errors in all 3 steps I believe, and many in the MFT. I ran it 30+ times and continued to be riddled with errors. I finally got fed up and formatted the hard drive via the format tool in windows. I figured this would solve the problem, but after copying some more files over to it, I just discovered the files are corrupted again. Is this a sign of a failing hard drive? Is there a way to fix this? (Maybe format with Western Digital program that wipes it with all zeros?)