A question about formatting hard drives to repair errors..?

Question

I have 2 SATA hard drives and they both have heaps of errors in the event viewer.
The PC frequently turns itself off, freezes, and is very slow on the internet. It wasn't like this when I first set it up. I do use a fileshare program but I am going to stop as soon as I fix whatever is wrong.
One of the drives is not being seen by BIOS, I have asked about this on answers before but got no help.
What I want to do is back up all data onto one drive and then format the other and then use it as my system drive, but if there is errors on it, will they still be there after the format?
I have done virus scans and they all come up clean. The drives are in SATA ports 1 and 2, its the drive in port 2 that is not recognised but I can still use it in windows. If there is any more information that would help, ask for more details.
Thanks..

Answer 1

Give this a try. Check for any loose cables inside your system as well as P-N-P cards that might have unseated themselves. It happens more than you might think. Next, do you have your bios set up to auto detect both harddrives or did you manually set them? Next, if you mirror the harddrive one to the other, all information will totally transfer. This is not a big deal. Event viewer can be cleaned out by deleting the entries the system has recorded. Next, once you format your second drive, everything will be removed, including your event viewer logs. Once you have transferred all info and formatted, if the second drive is recognized by Windows, I would not worry about whether bios picked it up or not. As long as it is fully functional inside Windows, you are good to go. Windows will manage it anyway. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I see, once you've formatted your hard drive error shouldn't be found. Now, if the problems is that the BIOS does not recognise the drive then there you may have a problem. Some BIOS do not identify some drives but I don't think that's the case since it is a relatively small percentage of hard drives in the market that present this drawback. Try and see if you can identify again through the BIOS, if it doesn't work then run a scandisk to spot any possible -repairable or not- errors. If you want to save your data and you don't have access to a CD/DVD recorder then try the following: there's a program called Partition Magic which lets you create a partition on your disk but not a regular partition. This can be created even when you already have a system installed on your hard drive. By partitioning it into say the half you could format one of the partitions and keep the data on the other. Then when the formatted part is error free you can transfer all the data to the other one and erase the other partition so you can have a whole unpartitioned drive.
The program you could download from the original site or from www.taringa.net
Good luck!

Answer 3

Yo, if the files you want to back up is already corrupted then they would still contain errors. Alot of your system problems could be from files dammaged by your hard drive. If registry cleaners dont work, then format the HD, then do a deep scan twice to fix any present errors. reinstall your os then regularly scan the drive (not always a deep scan). The BIOS not detecting your SATA HD is not rare. Sometimes it just happens and flashing the BIOS is not guaranteed to help. Only if the system doesnt detect it and it does'nt boot up or is seen in OS, then you have to worry about a bad connection or hardware failure.

Answer 4

There will always be errors in the event viewer. Don't worry about it. However if you are having system problems then it is more important to find out how to get rid of them and how to keep a system healthy instead of just starting again. Because chances are, it will come back.

Download a few of these programs and update them. Do weekly scans for the best performance.

AVG FREE
CCleaner
Ad-Aware 2007
PerfectDisk 8.0

You will need to google these, but do download them. They are powerful programs. I haven't formatted in 4 years.

Answer 5

once you install abode windows have it delete the present partition, then have it format NTSF and whilst it finishes it is going to installation your abode windows working gadget. it relatively is a clean installation. be certain the difficult force is desperate to understand and not slave. abode windows XP fix won't take place if abode windows isn't put in good on the difficult force so it acknowledges that it is there and put in. it may well be difficult to truly say what the difficulty is, except you're actually not booting the workstation up with the CD itself and not attempting to place in it from interior itself. that doesn't artwork.

Answer 6

Unless the drive is physically damaged e.g. bad sectors etc. you'd be much less vulnerable to viruses if you switched to Linux which is free.