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Bad Block error message

We are getting errors an error message for one of our machines in Event Viewer saying "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DRO has a bad block Event ID: 7" and we have run scandisk, chkdsk but we still have this error every few minutes in Event Viewer.  We tried to Ghost this machine but no success.  We did a Windows Backup but we are still worried that this drive will crash.  Any other utils that can help with this situation?  
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Probable causes could be the drive on the way out, has it got SMART on the disk try downloading a SMART monitoing tool (you might have to turn it on in the bios).

Otherwise check you have the correct drivers for your systemboard


Take a look at
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=7
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It does not have SMART on it and the systemboard has the correct drivers.  I am hoping to somehow repair this bad block without replacing the drive.  
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Hi regsamp,


I have faced a lot of drive bad block during years, but all of them have been saved.

If I understand well, you are facing a problem of old disk, with no SMART capability, and easy crash.

First, to avoid futur crash, don't make to much vibration near it, such as Subwoofer, of playing backet ball in the room, or whatever... Believe me, I've been in those situation before, and I know it's a real trouble.


Then, try to use those partition utilities, such as Partition Magic (downloadable trial version, but still works fine with the trial, you can create a boot floppy disk).

Hope that help. Tell us the news after!

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I did do a check mark scan for and recover from bad sectors.  This is not a raid configuration and could replace the drive but this is a server so I would have to rebuild everything all over.  I am trying to avoid that.  I tried to Ghost this server but Ghost did not work on this machine.  I did a Windows backup but I would feel better if it had been Ghosted.  I am trying TrueImage 8.0 and then will work on the drive.  Will keep updating.  
You could try getting hold of another drive of the same model mirroring the origonal then you would have a perfect backup just a thought.
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I wish this server had been set up for mirroring someone bypassed that option.  Yeah, I was thinking of that too.  I can't down it right now to even ghost it because it is in production.  
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Well, I just used TrueImage to copy the drive, will put in a new one and then put this image on that one.  
Good plan its not worth messing around with potencially dodgy drives in a server hope all goes well from now on.
If u use Spinrite on it from some other system u might be able to still recover the hard disk without much problems. Its also possible that it might not be a hardware problem thats critical but just somet5hing that Windows cudnt cope with. Try running Spinrite on it and it wud tell you if something is wrong, or u can try the Manufacturers utils i posted earlier on and see what they have to say. You can probably use the second hard disk then to have as a backup.

Dan