Repair HDs with damaged sectors?

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Telek
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Repair HDs with damaged sectors?

Post by Telek »

I have a pair of xboxen here with bad sectors on their HDDs. Is there any way to mask this with fatx as bad so that they don't get used, or a fsck program for fatx?
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Post by vplayer »

u could also get 80-120G hdds for $40 ... I would think you would be a lot happier..
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Post by Telek »

wow where do you get 120GB HDDs for $40?

I know it's easier to replace, but I'm just curious about repair. The owner of the box just wants to get it back working again like normal, doesn't want mod or anything else.
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Post by vplayer »

Hi,


This is the one valid this week till 05/28/2005... but I did see one couple of weeks ago for 40..

Western Digital Caviar SE 120GB, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, Internal EIDE Hard Drive (Mfr# WD1200JBRTL) » only $49.99 at bestbuy
Box: XBOX ver 1.1
Mod: Xecutor 2.3 lite+
Hdd: WD 80GB
Dash: Evox, Ava, XBMC
Linux: Gentoox Pro 4.2
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Post by orochi »

bad sectors can typically be fixed by low leveling the drive (zeroing the drive)

do this:
backup your data
pull the hard drive
put it in a pc
downoad Ultimate Boot CD from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
use a disk whiping software to zero the drive
you can then use a program to test the drive found on the same disk, if it passes slap it back in the xbox, format and put your data back



atleast that is what i would do heh
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Post by vplayer »

Hi,

New..... :)

Western Digital 160GB, 7200RPM, Internal ATA/100 Hard Drive >> for $29.99 at CompUSA.com (3 mail-in rebates (30,40,30 valid till Jun 04 2005)
Box: XBOX ver 1.1
Mod: Xecutor 2.3 lite+
Hdd: WD 80GB
Dash: Evox, Ava, XBMC
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Post by Telek »

That is insane...

But I'm Canadian, eh?

:roll:
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