Unable to R/W on one partition of IDE/USB

[Freehold Fred]

I have a 160GB Western Digital that I clammed shell into an external USB case.

I have 3 partitions: 80 GB NTFS, 60 GB NTFS, 20 GB FAT32
In attempting to make an image last night to one of the partitions Arcronis croaked the last minute and said unable to write, possibly to due to poor media.

I ran CHKDSK from Windows and was unable to read sector 0 and some other sector(s) starting at 77,xxx,xxx on the drive.

Do I trust this drive at all or simple reformat bad partition?

[kelly]

My opinion - if you can reformat - do it. Use the drive, but don't trust it with anything important until you have some time with it.

-td

[Tortanick]

I'd try to extract the data just to be safe.