Thanks John,

I already discarded it and replaced it with 2 Toshiba 640 G portable drives. 
I got them at Costco for $69 each. I've copied my data to both of them and 
only plan to connect them when I run SyncToy to backup my data.

I appreciate your help.

Joe


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From: "John Sproule" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:37 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Cyclical Redundancy Check Errors external hard drive

> Joe,
>
> I can't argue with your plan to just go ahead and replace the drive. 
> However, if you have the time, you might try the write zeros to the drive 
> utility and then re-run the diagnostic on it.  It's possible that the 
> problems are just at the file or configuration level and not the hardware 
> itself.  If it is a hardware problem, it may not even be able to overwrite 
> the whole drive with zeros.  Unfortunately, on a large USB drive, these 
> tasks can take many hours.  Maybe run it overnight.
>
> John
>
> ------Original Message Below-------
>
> Date:    Sat, 15 May 2010 11:01:03 -0400
> From:    Joe Trimarchi <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cyclical Redundancy Check Errors external hard drive
>
> Thanks John.
>
> The drive did come with WD Diagnostic software and I ran it. It reported 
> too
> many bad sectors after running for about an hour so I guess I'll just be
> safe and replace the drive.
>
> Joe
>
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