Data Lifeguard hangs when repairing bad sectors

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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My trusted XP Pro desktop won’t boot all of a sudden. Got message that there is a disk consistency problem, chkdsk would run through 3 stages without error, and then hangs.

Installed the hd on another XP Pro machine with OS on a different hd. Got the same disk consistency message and chkdsk run on the problem hd with every boot. Was able to read the data files from the problem hd. Now attempting to fix it to restore the OS and programs.

Downloaded  and ran Data Lifeguard on the problem hd. Quick test passed, and extended test reported bad sectors that may be fixable. Started repairing bad sectors, and part way through it hangs without any error message.

Questions:

1.  What does it mean when repairing bad sectors hangs?

2.  What can be done?

3.  Is there a way to get an error report from the extended test? Here’s what I got from the quick test:

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WDC WD2000JS-60NCB1
Unit Serial Number: WD-[deleted]
Firmware Number: 10.02E02
Capacity: 200.05 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: PASS

Thanks in advance.

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try to backup your files as quicly as possible

your HDD is dead… It seems that the platters has some debris from the moving heads

good luck

i dont recomend trying to repair in this case… your drive after trying to repair may be no longer available

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Thanks for the response.

I did back up all the data files from the hd before running Data Lifeguard and repairing.

When Lifeguard reports bad sectors, does it mean the sectors are physically damaged on the platter? Or can it mean something different? When it repairs them, does it mean it attempts to map them out?