02-08-2002, 12:05 AM
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Bad sectors on HD
What do Bad sectors actually do? The one thing I notice so far is that I am getting alot of windows blue screens
 is there any way to fix bad sectors? |
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02-08-2002, 12:54 AM
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Scandisk can repair the bad sectors, but it can't repair what is causing those bad sectors. It's probably time for a new hard drive.
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02-08-2002, 05:54 AM
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FYI - Scandisk doesn't actually repair bad sectors, it just marks them as bad so the system doesn't try to write to them anymore. Too many bad sectors & your drive space gets smaller & smaller.
Of course, this isn't as much of an issue with a 40GB HD as it was with a 340MB one... You should probably also download the drive diagnostics from the drive MFR - that will tell you if your drive is about to die. |
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02-08-2002, 10:04 AM
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Yeah, that's true. Haha, a friend of mine once had a 3.2 gig hard drive with just over 2.5 gigs of working space because of bad sectors.   |
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02-08-2002, 11:14 AM
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WOW it's not that bad I have a maxtor 4 gig with less than 2 megs of bad sector. The damm thing is slow! |
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02-09-2002, 10:51 AM
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man i have a stupid amd k62-450 running on that hd. I have no more money for it (and also it's a K6 the whole system is a giant paperweight)
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