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Old 12-24-2014, 11:49 AM   #39
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Yes, I'm 99% sure it's hardware - nothing external. Tried scanning the drive for errors on two different PCs and it scans most of the drive fine, then finds an area of the drive where it's constantly re-seeking, and then fails.
Bad Sectors. Definitely hardware failure. I had drives do that. I actually patched one of them using a Partition Manager and a reallocating sectors program this was before hard drives became cheap enough to just replace.
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