i have an external hard drive which i have partitioned. since then i have done virus scan and defragmentation on it. recently i have found part of the f drive (160gb) the write or read is stuck on part of it. so what do i do? do i have to reformat it? i dont think its a hardware problem.
blade_costic 0 Newbie Poster
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
What do you mean stuck? You get errors when you try to write? If you dont have any issues with reformating the drive, then that is a good idea. If you need to modify the partitions, then do that first using the Disk Management console.
blade_costic 0 Newbie Poster
it wont 100% complete. must be some damaged sector i dont know.
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
Did you try deleting the partition?
hotmatrixx 21 Posting Whiz
If that happened to me, it woudl become a 160gb doorstop. you can buy new 500gb hdd for less than $100, would you really trust you data on a sub-par drive? Just my 2 cents, and I have been burned with this issue 2x. Never again...
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