BstrucT

Thanks for the feedback all. I have concluded that the Hard Drive is indeed poked and need to be disposed of.
Seems like Hard Drives can just sometime play up if they want to, and I think its great that Hard Drive manufacturers have increased their quality with the new drives available today.

Still need a backup drive though, and thinking of getting a nice SATA II 250Gb or something with a lot of cache.

@Shadowhunter: Thanks for the advice girl, will definetely have a look at Sisoft Sandra today.

@lectricpharaoh: Considering your advise on my next hard drive purchase. Thanks.

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lectricpharaoh

If you've still got some valuable data on the drive that you need to recover, you might try SpinRite. I've never used it myself, but I have heard good things about it.

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Ooble

I can vouch for it - used it in the past and it's brought back all my pretties.

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