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cranioscopical:
Thanks again.
I'm hurrying at the moment but from a VERY quick look it looks as if
these (http://www.dban.org/) and (http://www.lehigh.edu/security/gwscan/gwscan.htm)
Will wipe anything they find.
Will I have an option ONLY to wipe the second of 4 drives, do you know?

TIA

Shades:
If these tools come in iso format, burn them to cd. Turn the PC off (switch at the back!), then make sure only the bad drive is connected to the mainboard. Without a physical connection it is impossible for this software to mess up your other drives and their content. Set the BIOS to boot from CD and (re)boot your system.

Follow the instructions from the tool, wait until it is finished and turn machine off (switch at the back!). Connect all drives again and boot your system (without the boot cd of course) and Windows should recognize a clean/pristine drive.
Use drive management console to partition and format the drive.

And tadaaa, cranioscopical is a happy camper again  :)

mouser:
if it were me, i might buy another drive and swap it for the one that's acting up.. if no more errors, then the one you removed is evil and needs to be removed from your house.  if the new one exhibits same behavior then its something else like mobo, cable, etc. but most important thing for me would be to stop trusting that drive immediately.  view anything on it as potentially loseable.

cmpm:
Thanks again.
I'm hurrying at the moment but from a VERY quick look it looks as if
these (http://www.dban.org/) and (http://www.lehigh.edu/security/gwscan/gwscan.htm)
Will wipe anything they find.
Will I have an option ONLY to wipe the second of 4 drives, do you know?

TIA
-cranioscopical (December 13, 2008, 02:58 PM)
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If you have a drive you do not want affected by these two programs, disconnect them from the computer.

Test each drive separately on the machine.
If you want to go to all that wirk.
Otherwise mouser's suggestion is workablr as well.

Again if you run nuke and boot or gwscan,
remove any drives you do not want wiped.
Though there are options I don't take those chances.

cranioscopical:
Thanks everyone!

As I've been told, I don't have the brains I was born with.
Not thinking at all, of course I should pull the other drives  :-[

Just to be clear, the troublesome drive is being replaced... no question. 
Data (and reliability) are worth far more to me than the cost of a replacement drive.

While replacing, I will check out all the other points, though (connections/cable etc).
I'll put the troublesome drive into a different computer when I run the tests as I need the machine that it's now in to be functioning.

My original query was aimed at avoiding a recurrence of this with a replacement drive (this one's only 6 months old).

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