traisjamesNo but it can recover bad sectors. I have the space, I might try that.
I wonder if you have a weak power supply? Regarding a bad CMOS battery, I booted up a machine with a dead one (a 6150 homebuilt that had not been booted in four years) and both hard drives were properly recognized. The only issue I had was having to enter the BIOS setup to populate the settings with defaults.