Hi all,
I have 3x HDDs (all SATA):
- C: system (120GB SSR)
- D: 1000GB for "Recorded TV" and system recovery points (I use Norton Ghost to back-up system after important changes or updates)
- E: 500GB for "Videos" and timeshifting
short story, I started having HUGE issues with the HTPC lately (several weeks).Live TV playing perfectly, same for playing "videos". Problem is, all hell broke loose whenever I started to access the physical HDD storing the Recorded TV files. That is, starting to record live TV, attempting to play recorded TV. All OK if I watch live TV or a Video, but starts breaking up, freezing, bad stuttering, etc - when it started to record a scheduled recording. Playing a recorded TV file is actually a nightmare, system freezes up, sometime is working fine for few minutes and then fails, or works fine and freezes if you try to skip...
After re-installing Windows, MediaPortal, playing with codecs - all the usual time wasting exercise - it became obvious to me that there is something wrong with the HDD so I ran a diagnostic with HD Tuner, please have a look at the screenshot below:
Obviously there are some errors identified, but my FIRST QUESTION is: how do I make them disappear? Even if that means the affected file is deleted. I would like to avoid formatting the HDD, there are a lot of "recorded tv" files in there... and if it is still there, that means that one day I will find time and watch it.
the issue became more evident when I attempted to do a system restore, as Norton Ghost could not do that anymore, error after error, freezing, etc - now, I believe all that is consistent with a HDD physical error.
SECOND QUESTION: can the HDD be "fixed" and content preserved (mark bad sectors, loose some files but not all, etc?) or not ( new HDD needed, all content is lost).
Many thanks in advance.