Is this hard drive broke?

[dario03]

My sister has a hard drive thats been causing some problems. I ran chkdsk/f and it basically does nothing, so I ran chkdsk/r and it always gets stuck on 27%. I also ran seatools and it detects 100 errors for every ~10,000 LBA sectors, it will fix all the errors but it makes me stop, fix, resume scanning every 100 errors so it would take me about 2 months to finish. So I am trying to run spinrite and it keeps extending the estimated time, it started at 9 hours and for now has jumped to 612 hours. Also with Spinrite I'm at 0.25% after 10 hours it shows 2 blocks, the first was fixed but the second could not be.

So is the hard drive beyond repair? Or is there something I can do.

 

[Lexluethar]

IMO it is beyond repair.

 

[dario03]

Note: I can actually access the drive just fine (I'm on it now) but after a fresh format the computer will just randomly slow down, sometimes lock up, and sometimes throw a warning windows must shut down message. It especially happens when trying to play a game or just doing anything more intensive than websurfing. I tested the rest of the computer and everything else seems ok, so I assume the hdd is at fault.

 

[Lexluethar]

You having errors in disk check and other utilities tells me it is faulty or dieing.

I'm sure you could use it up to the day it completely crashes, but I wouldn't advise it.

 

[H4x3r]

sounds bad to me, since it is still doing it after a fresh format