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re: Hard disk block
Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (19243 messages posted)


You can't unbreak that which is broken. There is nothing "blocked," it's a bad block, 
an area of the disk, and apparently a critical one. Whenever hard drives make grinding 
noises, they're done.






On Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 9:36 pm, Anita Lidven wrote:
>Hi
>I am running XP Home SP2 .
>I have a problem with the hope you can offer me assistance.
>I have a separate floppy (Seagate) which I plug into my USB port. It has been working
>great --until now. I was making bootup disks and managed to copy two when I heard
>a grinding sound, and the floppy stopped working.
>I went to the Help and Support Section and this is the message:
>"The device\Device\ Hard Disk0\ has a bad block"
>If anyone can tell me how to unblock this, I would be grateful.
>Many thanks



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