HDD General Problem for General Hardware Gurus
I'm pretty sure this is the case: I have a small scratch on on my HDD and it is causing a minor defect that will probably spread over time until my drive completely suxors.
The symptoms: I did a right-click, properties task a month or so ago to see how large a folder was and received a grinding noise from my HDD :( Now, I formatted the drive and it won't load windows b/c setup detects a fault (so I partitioned 10GB just to get back up and running). The NTFS format went through after I put windows on the 10GB, though?!
The precautions: I already have all of my data on a second hard drive.
What I want to know is, is there any software out there that would give me a better idea of where and how bad this problem is? Perhaps I could partition around it? I just want a drive to install and run my os(s) and software on. I'd hate to spend more than $30 on a drive less than 50GB :p Any helpful hints would be great :D