Theres really nothing you can do, the HD is on its way out. chkdsk and other utilities rarely are able to do anything at this point.
Read the first reply to this thread again.
Well, I'm posting from it now. It's fast as ever. But I am going to make a clone of my partition and just use the 500GB Samsung HDD I just ordered today and RMA this one. I'm contacting WD right now to see what the say.
I think a good fresh format would be good. I'll just install all my games to the faster hard drive when I get it back.
I can't believe I managed to bring it back to life...
8KB in bad sectors:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
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C:\Users\Thomas>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
205824 file records processed.
File verification completed.
108 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
2 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
258664 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
205824 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
26421 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
1259808 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
146522111 KB total disk space.
129897544 KB in 178966 files.
90744 KB in 26422 indexes.
8 KB in bad sectors.
277971 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
16255844 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
36630527 total allocation units on disk.
4063961 allocation units available on disk.
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