Recent content by Matuzak

I really appreciate all your suggestions and time. I tried both methods. I see why they should have worked, but for some reason they didn't. I'm just using Windows Defender. If I'm headed towards formatting the drive, what do you think about me seeing what happens if I try to remove the...

No. My boot drive is disk 0. The problem drive is disk 2.

Unfortunately it's not fixed yet. After clicking yes to this box Apply Changes was greyed out I exited and shut the computer down. On post an error gave some reason for resetting my overclock (which has been stable for a year). It restarted, Windows checked my C drive (not the disk with...

Not a single clue. To write the zeros, should I go to Edit -> Edit Mode (check mark on) and start pressing "0"? When I'm done, do I uncheck Edit Mode and need to do anything else to save the changes? Then restart the computer and see what happens?

In the sector box I type "2", which caused the Offset number to change from 440 to 1464. Pressing Page Down does nothing until I click OK. Then it shows The zeros continue until the end of block 6 that continues through block 17. Then the zeros resume for some time. Then the zeros...

What numbers do you suggest I should enter here or somewhere else to examine sectors 2 through 33? If sectors 3-33 aren't empty, what should I do about it? Or will that really depend on what's in those sectors?

I bought it new from Newegg or Amazon and it went directly into my desktop PC. It's about two years old. DMDE threw up this box over 50 times and each time I clicked Ignore. In Parameters I checked "Ignore now, and always" but the boxes kept coming. Then I clicked Abort and got this screen

Can anyone explain what's happened to my hard drive and what I should do with it? MiniTool Partition Wizard shows Disk 3 looks like this: I can still read and probably write to the real partition of 2791.49 GB. Acronis True Image Home 2014 says it successfully wrote a backup to the drive last...