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Try running spinrite.<br />
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<a href="http://www.spinrite.com" rel="ugc">www.spinrite.com</a><br />
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This may be able to fix your drive.
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Try running spinrite.

www.spinrite.com [http://www.spinrite.com]

This may be able to fix your drive.

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I bit the bullet and reformated the HD and did a clean install of xp. Everything seems stable now, and passing a partition surface test. Hopefully everything stays this way and the HD doesn't act up again.
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I bit the bullet and reformated the HD and did a clean install of xp. Everything seems stable now, and passing a partition surface test. Hopefully everything stays this way and the HD doesn't act up again.

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My PC froze, and when I rebooted the OS could not be found. I tried running the XP recovery console, but keep getting partmgr.sys blue screen of death error when tries to &quot;starting windows.&quot;<br />
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When I run Partition Table Doctor, it is unable to write to &quot;harddrive 1&quot; and save any work - so I can't rebuild the partitions or MBR. I'm running HDAT2 now. It's been running all day, about 26% done, and so far everything it is scanning is reported as a bad sector. I'm not sure if it is able to repair it or not. <br />
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The last thing I did was update my wireless mouse driver and didn't reboot before it froze. Am I going to have to reformat and start entirely over from scratch?<br />
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This is a fairly new 260G Western Digital HD, on WinXP Pro SP2 system.
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My PC froze, and when I rebooted the OS could not be found. I tried running the XP recovery console, but keep getting partmgr.sys blue screen of death error when tries to "starting windows."

When I run Partition Table Doctor, it is unable to write to "harddrive 1" and save any work - so I can't rebuild the partitions or MBR. I'm running HDAT2 now. It's been running all day, about 26% done, and so far everything it is scanning is reported as a bad sector. I'm not sure if it is able to repair it or not. 

The last thing I did was update my wireless mouse driver and didn't reboot before it froze. Am I going to have to reformat and start entirely over from scratch?

This is a fairly new 260G Western Digital HD, on WinXP Pro SP2 system.

Entire HD bad sectors/partitions - partmgr.sys BSOD

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