Event viewer is reporting a hard disk error; "The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."

how can I marked the bad sectors permanent so that it
will not be used and Win2000 (adv server)will skipped
these bad sectors.

Have you tried the Error Checking utility?

Double click My Computer.
Right click the disk you want and choose Properties
Click on the Tools tab
Click on Error Checking.

I think this will mark your bad sectors.

Good luck

>-----Original Message-----
>Event viewer is reporting a hard disk error; "The device,
>\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
>
>how can I marked the bad sectors permanent so that it
>will not be used and Win2000 (adv server)will skipped
>these bad sectors.
>.
>start-run type in chkdsk /r <drive:>
will prompt to run at next reboot, type y
reboot, chkdsk will run with surface scan
will take at least an hour to run, depending on size of
drive
this will mark bad sectors