Hard Disk problem

I don't think the bad sector is the problem. Since you are telling that you hear lots of sound when booting, it could be a harware failure too, which is the worst case and inevitabily, you have to buy a new one. This happens when your Master Boot Record(MBR) is corrupted of bad. Try another command, boot in command promt as said in the post and run "fdisk /mbr" without "". This will reset your MBR. Then you can try scandisk and chkdisk. If all these don't work, it's a hardware error!

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Make a start-up disk. Once the ms-dos system is already running type format c: /f f means fix. so the bad sectors will be fixes easily

yeah use start up disk and boot your pc in drive a. after that use the comand scandisk or format c:/f

I have purchased My PC just 1 yr ago after 3 moths my Hard disk failed . But the PC was in Gurantee period . Parantu mera data ud gaya tha....

you've been the same hard disk for so long i think it is time to upgrade your harddisk or your computer, if your harddisk is showing you bad sectors then it is possible that you might have roughly used your computer.

I think i have a cheaper solution to your problem.If you hard drive makes sounds and freezes the computer but if you restart it it works it the cable conecting the HDD to the moterboard.I have changed 3 cables because of this problem,try that and if doesn't work buy a new HDD.

I have experienced the same problem months ago. If you say that you heard noises while running your pc chances are you have a hard disk failure. Its more likely that your hardisk is misaligned due to unleveled ground, frequent and sudden shutdown, brown outs or power failure and years of use. Formatting and/or scandisk won't solve the problem since your harddisk may be scratched or misaligned. I think the best think to do is back up your files and buy a new harddisk.

yor computer need a start-up disk

just buy a knew one it solves every problem. If the HDD makes a weird sound its unrepairable because you cant desmembrete a HDD to see whats wrong in fact you cant do nothing to a HDD it is what it is.

man... old is gold... you listen this slogan. when computer are comes in the market its too much costly. so its all the parts are genuine. now days coputer are cheap so all the parts are not genuine as they are before. i have 9 computers in my office. 4 are p-iv and other 5 are p-i. every week i get prob. in p-iv, but in p-i i get prob. once in 2 months. so old is gold.