Laptop Hard Drive Problem

I have an 80GB hard drive and use an exact duplicate to make a clone
about once a week. The clone is in a module caddy. Very frequently,
my clone (using Ghost 2003) stops before it's finished and I get a
write error message. When this happens and I try to boot using my
primary drive, I sometimes get a message that the cloned drive is
unrecognizable. I also sometimes get this message even if the cloning
succeeded. This particular drive is a replacement for one where I had
the same problem. Therefore, I don't suspect the drive and I do
suspect the drive module caddy. I ran Sea Tools from Seagate on the
drive and it told me that I had four corrupt attribute records and
"some other problems." But Sea Tools isn't specific about these other
problems nor do I know what a corrupt attribute record is. Sea Tools
told me that it inserted data attributes in the corrupt records - but I
don't know if this is supposed to fix those problems - nor do I know
what the other problems are. Are there disk drive utilities out there
that I can download that will not only analyze hard drives - but will
repair them if possible? These are Toshiba drives and Toshiba tells me
that they don't have any diagnostic software for hard drives for the
consumer.

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:00:15 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>From: "Fruit2O" <jz137xww DeleteThis @cox.net>
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>Replace the hard disk.

But this is the second hard disk I've tried from the same manufacturer.
Doesn't seem likely that I would have the same problem.