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I bought a IBM laptop hard drive for my laptop. Everything was working fine untill I was formating it then I had a power out right in the midle of it and the battery in the laptop was dead. Some luck. After I reformated it and everything worked fine untill the next day. I went to boot up and an error post came up and said '' fixed disk 0 failure''. Now I cant do anything. I think its a corrupted sector and not even the BIOS sees it. Is there a free/cheap software solution that can fix this without replacing the hard drive?
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Often drives come with utilities that will allow you to do a low level format, which might help.
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I tryed that and it didnt help.
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Is the disk detected correctly in BIOS, and can you boot from a floppy? Try using fdisk if you can to reformat.
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It's not detected in the BIOS and I tryed FDISK and it said no fixed disk present but I can boot to a floppy.
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Can you add this drive as a slave on another working computer?
If its not detected, and you've checked all your connections, try another cable too. If its not showing up on either computer, it might have died.
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