Jack
Fri May 06 08:32:48 CDT 2005
"Warning: Bad sectors on a modern hard disk are almost always an indication
of a greater problem with the disk. A new hard disk should never have bad
sectors on it; if you buy one that does have bad sectors, immediately return
it to the vendor for exchange (and don't let them tell you "it's normal",
because it isn't.) For existing hard disks, the vast majority of time, a
single bad sector that appears will soon be accompanied by friends. While
you can map out and ignore bad sectors, you should make sure to contact the
vendor if you see bad sectors appearing during scans, and make sure the data
is backed up as well. Personally, I will not use any hard disk that is
developing bad sectors. The risk of data loss is too high, and hard drives
today are inexpensive compared to the cost of even an hour or two of
recovering lost data (which takes a lot more than an hour or two!)."
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/geom/formatDefect.html
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Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
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"Joe McGuire" <mcguirejw@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OaaDQ4jUFHA.2540@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Thanks. I will do what you suggest. Meanwhile, what is meant by "bad
> sectors?" Do I just ignore that sort of stuff?
>
>
> "Jack E Martinelli" <jemartin_DELETE@NO_SPAM_gis.net> wrote in message
> news:%2324oFVXUFHA.3076@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > None of your report is particularly unusual.
> > Now that you have completed the reinstallation of WinME and scandisk
will
> > complete, run defrag to greatly improve disk performance.
> >
> > You may wish to consider obtaining a better third-party tool, eg.,
Perfect
> > Disk or Diskeeper, which will make your life easier and your disk better
> > performing.
> >
> > In the future, you may wish to use ScanDefrag:
> >
> >> The free ScanDefrag is the most advanced disk maintenance
> >> program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk
> >> Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can deal with
> >> problems like "drive's contents have changed: restarting...".
> >> Get it and read about all the options it has that you can use.
> >
> >
http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm
> >
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS
> > Help us help you:
http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm
> >
> >
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> > In Memorium: Alex Nichol
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx
> > Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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> > "Joe McGuire" <mcguirejw@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:eXBNW$MUFHA.1432@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> After reformatting my HD and reinstalling WinMe with updates I ran
> > ScanDisk.
> >> It would not run in the Normal Mode (after many hours it rpoerted that
it
> >> tried 10 times but something started writing to the drive, according to
> > the
> >> message). I then ran in in Safe Mode with a check mark for repairing
> >> errors--took well over 24 hours--and it gave me a mystifying report.
If
> >> says it found no errors. It reported in round numbers 78,000,000 KB
> >> total
> >> disk space (I have an 80 GB disk) and 8,600,520 bytes in "bad sectors."
> >> What does this mean? Is my HD shot? Do I have to fix something? Call
> >> Dell? Could this explain why I was having so much trouble in the first
> >> place (OK, that is too open-ended)
> >>
> >
> >
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