Having not seen the original post, I'd suggest a full virus scan first,
followed by a format regimen, or run it as a slave if it works at all, THEN
throw it away if none of that works.
Martin Kurr
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> From:         Robert Bowen - Information Services - SUNY
> Subject:      Re: [PCBUILD] hard drive error
> >My friend has a computer that needs a lot of work, upon bootup we get an
> >error message stating  " sector not found reading drive c
> >                            abort,retry,ignore,fail "

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