help my esdi is posessed by demons help i really got ripped off and i need some help unripping myself i bought a maxtor mb esdi hdd from hi tech for then paid to get it repaired for about another here s the deal the thing works fine it low level formats etc without any bad spots at all and then jaws music sectors start going bad eek one at a time norton disk doctor keeps marking some u and some c that fixes it for about minutes then next day when i run ndd on it again no dice more uncorrectable and correctable sectors ahhhhhuuuurrrrrrggggghhhhh so i fugure ok ndd s just not being thurough enough i ll use spinrite i heard that works well what happens spinrite goes and returns the clusters to active use ahhhuuuurrrrrrggggghhhh ndd undoes it of course the problem seams to be getting worse and worse however when the hdd is low level formatted again the problem goes away for a while only to return in a day or so i m so pissed off right now i m considering buying another hdd and i really can t afford it i m using smartdrive and windows i m not using the bit disk access though i know that can create problems the disk is using the second option to trick the controller into thinking it s got less then cyls and everything else selected is standard maybe i need to use a different head skew or something i don t know anyone who knows how to fix this problem please tell me how help gt designing tommorow the night before with yesterday s technology
