stay away from WD drives as they seem to be the worst drives ive seen , ive got a 200gb hdd totally non oprational now and it was less than a year old when failure
as for bad blocks/disk sectors run scandisk to attempt to mark them so there never used again , normaly that procedure with wd is futile so dont waste ya time
there is a trick where you put the hdd into a fridge to cool it down a lot then put it into the pc and it will function again for like 5-10 mins if your lucky but thats only a extream last resort so dont go freezing ya hdd's for small things like bad blocks
edit: allso enable S.M.A.R.T in the bios to help predict hdd failure before it happens
Steve
hope you understand some of that ;-)
as for bad blocks/disk sectors run scandisk to attempt to mark them so there never used again , normaly that procedure with wd is futile so dont waste ya time
there is a trick where you put the hdd into a fridge to cool it down a lot then put it into the pc and it will function again for like 5-10 mins if your lucky but thats only a extream last resort so dont go freezing ya hdd's for small things like bad blocks
edit: allso enable S.M.A.R.T in the bios to help predict hdd failure before it happens
Steve
hope you understand some of that ;-)