Satellite L20-214 - isolate bad sectors on the HARD drive?

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• Bad sectors on the hard drive; help to isolate or repair

  Hello, recently I discovered that my windows get to slump that closely mimics a gel at a random time. After a lot of research on this topic, I did several diagnostic tests on my laptop and finally reduced to my hard drive.
  The problem is evident for the following reasons:
  • When I tried to run chkdsk/r/f, which is always translated by he stuck to "step 4: check the data in the file" around 70%.
  • When the slowdown occurs, the resource monitor from Task Manager for the disk activity showed 1 KB/s (not sure if this is suspicious)
  • Tried various hard drive diagnostic tools. WinDLG gets blocked for a certain sector, but has never even if I waited for 6 h +. SeaTools for DOS has reported that the hard drive failed the tests. Dell diagnostic tool also pointed out the hard drive, is not the test of confidence in some sectors. Toshiba Diagnostics tool did not work as I could not highlight the readers so he could test.
  Formally, this means that I have bad sectors on the hard drive and I want to know if there are solutions to 'fix' or isolate him rather than replace the hard drive. The hard drive is only a year old and I would like to get as much time as I can with the drive without having to spend on a new.
  In addition, I also came to this post here which seems to reflect the same situation:
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-performance/trying-to-fix-Chkdsk-from-freezing-at-stage-5-of-5/b8b8d748-3b50-4cff-9a28-9469fcfa3b97?page=1&TM=1325413573002
  However, there are a few parts where I am confused and does not really apply to my situation (for example, meanwhile his stage 5, for me its stage 4). Thanks in advance for any help.

  CHKDSK does not indicate a failing hard drive, it indicates problems with the filesystem (NTFS.sys) hard disk.  I like to repeat because that may indicate more out of trouble (if you get several times CHKDSK repair things, then something else is the cause).

  That's what I'm looking for:
  "Windows has made corrections to the file system."
  Know me mistakes.

  DO NOT use the drivers from the resource CD.  They are overwhelmed when you get them.  Go to the Dell support site and download the latest versions here.

  Unfortunately, unless your highly qualified with a soldering iron on small electric parts, then there is no replacement of the part.  Also unfortunately, there is no test for a motherboard problem, so we have to everything else on the rule.

  If it passes all the tests, it indicates that it passed all tests.  All these tests are software - they can not physically 'see' a hardware problem, but can deduct that it based on the results of the tests.

  I suggest you a few additional tests before start thinking that it's the mobo.  They are Prime95 test and tests stress CPU at this link: http://www.carrona.org/hwdiag.html

  I also suggest another facility 'clean' - just to be sure.  Here's what I propose for a clean install:
  [quote]
  For testing purposes, it is best to install Windows "clean".
  It is, basically, install the way that Microsoft intended (with the drivers from Windows Update).
  This procedure is for Windows 7, Vista is similar (but has 2 service packs)

  You will need your installation/recovery DVD (s) before you start.  Once you wipe the hard drive, there is no going back!

  1 back up all your data.
  It will wipe everything off of your hard drive, so what you want to keep should be backed up elsewhere.

  [b] [u] NOTES: [/ b] [/ u] If this is due to an infection, remember to analyze the data with current antivirus to another system to locate and remove malware.

  2. connect the system to the internet (if the system shows then disconnect from the Internet, do).

  3. use one of these free utilities to wipe the hard drive:
  DBAN (http://www.dban.org/download)
  KillDisk (http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm).
  This will remove also any partition system - then the intallation/recovery recovery DVD are essential!

  4. install Windows by booting from the installation/recovery DVD - [b] [u] DO NOT change any settings! [/ u] [/ b]

  5 visit Windows Update and get all updates

  6 visit Windows Update and download the Service Pack 1 (normally under important updates).  Read these notes for installing SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505743

  7 visit Windows Update and get any other available updates

  8. check device for all unknown/disabled devices Manager - if there are unknown disabled devices, secure them with the latest drivers from the website of the manufacturer of the device (not the PC manufacturer)

  9 download, install and update a free antivirus, so it does not get infected during the test (http://www.carrona.org/freeav.html).

  [u] if problems persist [/ u], the problem is probably with your hardware.

  [b] [u] warning: [/ u] [/ b] If you have an Asus motherboard, check the date on the file C:\Windows\System32\driver\ASACPI.sys.  2004/2005 is a problem, 2009,2010 is OK.  Updates are available on the Web from Asus site.

  [b] [u] warning: [/ u] [/ b] If you have a Sony system, make sure that you do NOT have the 2007 version (or earlier) Extension of Firmware of Sony Analyzer (SFEP.sys).  To update this driver immediately!

  [/ quote]

• y at - it another program which marks bad sectors on the hard drive, so I can continue to use my hard drive?

  Windows 7 does not support fdisk more is what im saying.  y at - it another program which marks bad sectors on the hard drive, so I can continue to use my hard drive?

  OT:

  Fdisk

  Hello

  Running checkdisk (chkdsk) will mark bad sectors. Utility of these manufacturers
  It will be even better.

  Check the hard disk for errors, health, bad sectors in Windows 7 / 8 / 10
  http://www.thewindowsclub.com/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-Windows

  Bad sectors explained: why hard drives get bad sectors and what you can do about it
  http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

  The manufacturer Diagnostic utilities.

  (The old 302602 links isn't now valid for Diagnostics links).

  Manufacturer diagnostic utilities - run one to your hard drive
  http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/hard-drive-support/462298-no-IDE-device-found.html

  Corrected list dated 06/09/2010

  Fujitsu hard drives: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.Fujitsu.com/EMEA/products/HDD/

  Hitachi hard drives: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.HitachiGST.com/support/downloads/

  IBM hard drives: use Hitachi utility *.

  Toshiba hard drives: use Hitachi or Maxtor utilities

  Maxtor hard drives: Diagnostic Utilities here (now SeaGate)
  http://www.Seagate.com/www/en-us/support/

  Quantum hard drives: use the Maxtor utilities

  Seagate hard drives: here Diagnostic utilities
  http://www.Seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads

  Conner hard drives: use the Seagate utilities

  Hard drives Samsung: utility of diagnosis here
  http://www.Samsung.com/global/business/HDD/

  Hard drives Western Digital: utility of diagnosis here
  http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?lang=en
  Trial versions of one of these 'might' help.

  SpeedFan
  http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

  HD Tune
  http://www.hdtune.com/

  I hope this helps.
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  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" experience :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Bad sectors on the hard drive

  My neighbor's daughter brought me his cell phone more, g6-1d20ca model. It does not start. There is a loop on the text of recovery. I ran my "CD Boot" (Hiren s) on this topic and saw that the hard drive was littered with bad sectors. The HD is obviously toast. My Question: Is - this acceptable once I replaced the HD to load my version of Win 7 64 bit on his cell phone, but the use of its Windows product key? The part of the recovery of the HD is inaccessible. It's never the disks when she bought the laptop. I then download the drivers and others on the HP website. Is this legally possible?

  Forward to your response.

  Yes, as long as your version corresponds to its key. Like Home Premium.

  You can order a recovery media for about $17 (I ordered last time) of his models support page:

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?OS=4063&LC=en&cc=us&DLC=en&sw_lang=&product=5223311

• Satellite L500 - 19 X - bad sectors on my HARD drive?

  Hello world.
  I bought this Toshiba Satellite L500 - 19 X nine UK July 2010 (500 GB, 4 GB RAM). I was working well until March 2011, when he began to work more slowly and more slowly and eventually crashing, forcing me to do a clean install of Windows 7. I did it several times now, and now when I start it, CHKDISK comes intu action, wanting to check drive C for errors. If I allow it, he made it for about 5 hours, restarts and suddenly upward at the Windows logo. I had to format it when it reaches this stage, so now I cancel CHKDISK checking disk. It seems I have bad sectors on my computer causing this problem. Today, I tried to install Linux on a partition (4parititions in total) but he wouldn't get away, it freezes.

  Please help me, what I do with it.

  Thanks in advance,
  Frank.

  Hey,.

  I agree with the user above. If your laptop has guaranteed valid contact the nearest authorized service provider:
  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com > support & downloads > find an authorized service provider

  Other Exchange the HARD disk yourself because it s not very delicate. It takes 5 to 10 minutes only ;)

• When you run a system scan for errors or bad sectors on the hard drive it creates a log file

  If so where is it stored

  Vista Home Premium

  Hello

  CHKDSK (short for Checkdisk)-<-- see="" the="" vista="" log="">
  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/chkdsk

  How to read the log of the event viewer to check disk (chkdsk) in Windows
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-Event-Viewer-log.html

  Journal of checkdisk is EventViewer which is easy to read with the 2nd utility here.

  Look in the Event Viewer to see the newspaper.
  http://www.computerperformance.co.UK/Vista/vista_event_viewer.htm

  Control Panel - Classic view - administrative tools - event - left panel - Windows logs Viewer-
  under the above - click on request - in the scroll of the middle column the list indicating the Source-
  Click Wininit - right panel - event Wininit - click event properties - new window will open
  with the journal you want. Scroll as needed. Event ID is 1001.

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  If you clear the log before planning checkdisk it is easier to find, however by time
  and Date should be pretty easy.

  MyEventViewer - free - a simple alternative in the standard event viewer
  Windows. TIP - Options - Advanced filter allows you to see a time rather
  of the entire file.
  http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/my_event_viewer.html

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle="" -="" mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• Satellite L20-214: Does recover CD contains the Win XP Pro

  Hello

  I have a PC laptop toshiba satellite L20-214, it came with windows xp pre-installed 2, so I don't have a CD of Windows XP2.
  I want to format and reload windows XP2.

  The recovery of the supplied product disc with the laptop there Windows XP2 on it?

  Yes, the restore CD contains the operating system that was installed on the laptop, all the drivers of Toshiba and tools as well as other software like Norton antivirus, Win DVD, etc.

  Then you can just boot from the recovery CD and could install from the recovery CD.
  But note; the recovery CD will format the whole HARD drive. So, you can lose all the files.

• Bad sectors on the HARD disk in cell A10 satellite

  Hi all... I use Win XP on an A10 Satellite with 512 MB of Ram.
  The problem is that my pc is too slow after a format I did yesterday.

  After checking the hard drive found some bad sectors... do I have to replace the drive hard and how can I do?
  Do you know how much GB disk can use? Are there restrictions? Thank you!

  If your HARD drive is not dead then you need not to replace the HARD drive.
  Bad sectors can be repaired easily.

  I would recommend doing this;
  Start the console with the command: CMD
  You can then use the command chkdsk/p/r

  This should help.
  There are a lot of programs that could help to repair the HARD drive.
  Google for "HARD drive repair", "HDDBadSectorRepair. The two applications are useful.

• Satellite Pro A120-154 - how to remove the HARD drive password?

  Hello

  I have the following problem: I set a password for the HARD drive in my old Satellite Pro A120-154 years ago, and now I want to remove or change the passowrd since I'll give you this laptop for my nephew. Instead I don't know the password, I am not able to change or remove, not with the password of Toshiba uitility program and not with the BIOS set up.

  Further I can't find any info on this in the user manual. How can I do this?

  Thanks Tino

  Hello

  I found several useful documents from Toshiba on HARD drive password. Please take some time and pick up some info on HARD drive password and how it works.

  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ9202JG0000R01.htm
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB6B01MC000CR01.htm
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/FAQ9401AR0000R01.htm

• Satellite C660D - 1 3 - How to remove the HARD drive password?

  So, my laptop is unrecoverly dead ;(
  (Toshiba Satellite C660D - 1-3)
  but the HARD drive still works (Toshiba HDD2L04 320)
  the problem is, I protected with a password that I can not turn off.

  I have the password, I could also save all my important files to an old crappy HP laptop running.

  But now I'd like to use it as an external drive, I can't as long as it is protected (I tried a few PC, nothing worked).

  When I try to disable it in the BIOS of the old HP, it asks me on a second password, a password for the master user... but I've never had one in my Toshiba :/

  What now? What I have to go to a store and try an another Toshiba or is it a tool to disable the password of windows or linux?

  Hello

  Unknown HARD disk password can not be removed... even the authorized service provider Toshiba will not be able to remove this password disk HARD unknown.
  In this case, the HARD drive will be useless

  Take a look at this FAQ from Toshiba:
  Is it possible to delete a HARD drive password?

• Satellite L350-170 - sounds of clanking from the HARD drive

  My laptop Satellite L350-170 performs a kind of rattling noise when the hard drive light flashes.
  Is this normal because this is a replacement one but that I had did not all sounds.

  Hello

  It is very difficult to say why this noise appears.
  I have two laptops. On a laptop, the HARD drive clicks and creates its strange but 4 years it worked correctly.
  The other HDD doesn t create sounds

  So, as you can see not really easy to tell what could cause this noise of rattle, but I recommend creating a file backup.
  In the worst cases could die your HARD drive and as a result, a backup is always recommended.

  You said that the HARD drive has been changed so maybe you should ask ASP for more details and maybe this HARD drive will be replaced again.

• Satellite A205-S4777 - XP does not recognize the HARD drive

  Hello!

  Recently I buyed a new satellite Toshiba A205-S4777 with Windows Vista home premium installed
  and I noticed too many errors in Windows Vista and the pc is very slow so I decided to downgrade to XP

  I want to directly install Windows XP but the installer does not recognize the hard drive or more exactly controllers!

  I nLite Sata drivers in Windows Xp Sp2, I bought on the microsoft.com site!

  Everything worked well.
  The Installer recognized fine hard and Setup finallased!

  But here's the problem when loading windows and try to pass on gorge yourself sort of blue screen one unreadable!

  And restarts and let, it does all day the same thing!

  I'm afraid that I have not nLite the right drivers.

  Is there anyone Heve downgraded this model?
  Thanx

  Hello

  Maybe you did not use good SATA driver?  :| Who knows
  The point is that there are two different versions of Intel Matrix Storage Manager supports different chipsets.
  I put t know what chipset is in charge of your laptop but you should check this and must also check the description of the Intel Storage Manager and check what chipsets are supported.

  In addition, you should have a look here in this doc from Toshiba:
  [How to integrate a SATA AHCI driver into a Windows XP installation CD | http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm]

  Good bye

• Satellite L305D S5895: Win 7 cannot find the HARD drive or cannot format the HARD drive on a clean install

  I have laptop Satellite L305D S5895 of the customer. It was delivered to me by the customer who tried to install Windows XP Pro, Vista and none would install.
  He said he tried all the CD that he had finally dropped on it and delivered it to me installation.

  When I got the score have been removed, so I tried to install Win 7 and when I do a custom install, I get an error indicating that the hard drive can not be formatted on disk 0 or it will give an error that no hard drives have been found.

  I have reset the bios default and no matter what I do, it won't format or find the hard drive. I was going to upgrade the bios, but the only way I found to upgrade the bios is once windows is installed.

  Everyone has ideas about this laptop so I can get a system installed. I checked the bios and there is no parameters for a sata, raid or IDE disk drive, so it seems that this version cannot be changed.

  Thanks for anyone who can help you.

  Rick

  Hello

  First of all it is an American notebook series.
  [Satellite L305D-S5895 | http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2144776& rpn = PSLC0U & modelFilter = L305D-S5895 & SelCategorie = 3 & selFamily = 1073768663]

  The laptop supports a processor AMD and ATI chipset.
  This means that the drivers SATA is part of the ATI graphics card driver.

  You must include the first SATA driver in order to install the Windows operating system.
  You could add the SATA driver for the Windows disk using software like nLite / vLite

  Welcome them

• Satellite A30 PSA30E - BIOS does not recognize the HARD drive

  Hi all
  I have a Satellite A30 (PSA30E) and I start the computer. When I enter the BIOS it does not recognize the hard drive.
  Does anyone no what I can do?
  Is it possible to restore the BIOS?

  Thank you

  Hello

  You replaced the HARD drive by a new one or the BIOS don't recognize the old HDD?

  Usually if the laptop is not able to start and that the BIOS does not see the old HDD then I guess that the HARD drive is faulty.
  If the BIOS doesn't recognize the inserted new HARD drive and then either you ve bought is not compatible, or the size of the HARD drive is just too big.

  Please provide more info. You see error messages?

• Satellite A100-451 - a few questions on the HARD drive, speakers

  I hope someone can help with these that I could not help on the information line.

  How fast is the hard drive on this laptop? He said SMART 160 GB, but does not specify a speed, although I'm guessing its 5400 RPM.

  Are the Harmon Kardon speakers? The specs say Toshiba stereo, and even on the Comet, he said Harmon Kardon. Here is a good bass-wise?
  Looks like there is no bluetooth, I find a little surprise.

  Finally, the only place wherever I can find it for sale is the comet... I was wondering it anyone has also saw that I had some dodgy experiences with them.

  See you soon
  Matt

  Hello

  I found some info that the rotation of the HARD drive is 4200 RPM. I'm not sure 100% on speakers but usually if laptop a harman/kardon speakers it is not in the specification but for A100-451, it is not the case. This info, you can get the garage directly.

  BT is not available, and it shouldn't surprise you because most of the A100 models are supplied without BT module. You can use any time key USB BT. IT is simple to use and really cheap.