How do I fix errors on my hard disk?

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Hi Leo,
Please I need your answer to my problem.

Usually I scan my drive in read-only mode every week just ti make sure my drive is in goo shape all the time and when I find errors I run chkdsk with /f /r.
However, I gave my notebook to a friend who return it to me after month and found there were lot off errors when running chkdsk, I've done it with /f /r several times and after each I run it in read-only to see if there are any errors and there were some errors showing. So I reformatted my notebook with normal format for the HD not "Quick" and did clean XP install. once the IS was running I did the chkdsk in read-only and there was no errors but after installing my applications and using the notebook for few hours I scanned the HD in read-only and again there were bunch of errors found in the HD and got that message which tells you chkdsk cannot continue and to use /f. Again, I did it with /r /f three times but when I scanned it in read-only after that I found errors!!
I dont need to recover any data but I don't feel right about my HD while it's giving errors like this that cannot be fixed.

What do you suggest, is there any software I can use to resolve this, can SpinRite fix it keeping in mind that I can get a brand new HD with the same price! or it's better to change the drive?

Thank in Advance

hi leo

im having problems with my hard disc drive i had a guy take it to clean it up disc defrag making files easier to find and making it run faster while he was doing that some errors on the disc came up inbetween the system data and the data stored on the hard drive and now i can not access the data on the hard disc so is there anyway that i can get to those files?

ps great site

sir i fujistu semiens hard disk 250 gb hard disk.that hdd is running now.wherever i want to format that hdd they can't go further 1%.i m not ablt understand what d problem is and how can i solve it.

hi Leo, i have an intel macbook and i have a 500 gb iomega external hard drive to make my security copies on time machine but suddenly, one day my macbook stopped showing me my disk on the desktop. I can not see my hard disk drive on any computer, no matter if the operating system is windows or mac and i plug another external hard disk to my mac and it works perfectly. It all begins when the time machine utility send me an error.
Thank you for your help.

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Hi Leo,
I have a Windows Vista Basic SP1 computer that continualy has errors. I originally thought it was the software loaded on it and did a complete reimage of the hard drive. But, I still had problems on the C: drive...it's become apparent to me that it's the hard drive and have decided to replace it. Since the recovery files (D:) are also on the bad drive, how do I copy them from the D: drive so that I can image the new drive with the same information (so the new looks exactly like the old).

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