reformat of a 250g wd blue hd

[l921428x]

been havin problems with my 1t WD Black and this is a practice run.
Thoughts?
Funds are kindda short, so overwrite right?

[cevulirn]

what are you trying to accomplish? Reformatting a drive is easy, reinstalling an operating system and drivers slightly less so.

[Schuetzenman]

what are you trying to accomplish? Reformatting a drive is easy, reinstalling an operating system and drivers slightly less so.

Exactly so. Have you Defragged the HD lately? That could speed things up if all you have is slow retrieval. OTOH if the drive is failing nothing is going to make it better.

[l921428x]

tried the defrag. no help so to speak. the reformat on the 250g was sucessful, now i have to relearn what i have forgotten. how to make an interweb connection.
couldnt hook up. put the 1t hd back and will try sumpin later today. its just frustrating to have this much computer and........

[Krupski]

been havin problems with my 1t WD Black and this is a practice run.
Thoughts?
Funds are kindda short, so overwrite right?

Western Digital has a diagnostic program for their hard drives:

http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...&sid=3&lang=en

This will test to see if your drive is bad or going bad.

Note that your problem could be either hardware or software. By "hardware" I mean your physical hard drive may be failing.

Or it could be software. Your drive could be perfectly fine, but your OS install is corrupted or maybe you have a virus or malware.

A re-format will solve a software problem, but it won't help one bit if the drive itself is failing.

Also, if you reformat, and if your PC BIOS supports it, enable "boot sector write protection" (or something similarly named) AFTER you've re-installed the OS.

This will prevent any virus from installing itself in the boot sector (where lots of the newer ones are placed).

You have to do this AFTER you re-install the OS because the OS installs a boot loader in the boot sector and obviously the install process needs access to write the boot sector.

[l921428x]

thanx Krup once again you .......know. Shotdown61 was over last night to help with a driver problem, worked fine until this morning when i downloaded adobe
and got that stupid Chrome shit in a bundle. just started another format of the wd black. By the time I die maybe, just maybe,,,,,,,,