I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan
Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk.
Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk?
Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk?

Thanks for your advice.

"news.ntlworld.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave.
After formating I ran Scan
> Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk.
> Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk?


NO!

> Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk?

Probably not.

What to do next is the question. It may be a bad HD or just some other
artifact. How much time do you want to spend finding out?

You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.

"news.ntlworld.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After
formating I ran Scan
| Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk.
| Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk?
| Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk?
|
| Thanks for your advice.
|

"Ron Reaugh" <ron-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:PgTtb.70910$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "news.ntlworld.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave.
> After formating I ran Scan
> > Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk.
> > Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk?
>
>
> NO!

NO! to what, imposter?

>
> > Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk?
>
> Probably not.
>
> What to do next is the question. It may be a bad HD or just some other
> artifact. How much time do you want to spend finding out?
>
>

news.ntlworld.com wrote:

> I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan
> Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk.
> Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk?
> Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>

Modern drives should remap bad sectors so you don't see them until the
point at which they overwhelm the spares available. Modern drives
also generally have S.M.A.R.T. capabilities which may be helpful in
determining what's wrong.

Seagate drives in my experience have been pretty good -- I would
suspect your cabling and/or power supply.

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Eric Gisin, ericg@10.11.12.13 escribió en el mensaje, <(E-Mail Removed)>, Sun, 16
Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800
> You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics..
>

I just did that, and no problem was found.
Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be
configurated properly".

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000, news.ntlworld.com
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Eric Gisin, ericg@10.11.12.13 escribió en el mensaje, <(E-Mail Removed)>, Sun, 16
>Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800
>> You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.
>>
>
>I just did that, and no problem was found.
>Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it
>states "The disk may not be
>configurated properly".

There is a serious Windows bug (the 32 GB problem), which Microsoft
gives a benign description. You may have run into the benign
description:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;243450

--
Svend Olaf

news.ntlworld.com, (E-Mail Removed) escribió en el mensaje,
<(E-Mail Removed)>, Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000
> Eric Gisin, ericg@10.11.12.13 escribió en el mensaje, <(E-Mail Removed)>, Sun, 16
> Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800
> > You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.
> >
>
> I just did that, and no problem was found.
> Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be
> configurated properly".
>
Im sorry I made a mistake, Scan Disk is reporting Bad clusters Not Bad Sectors

news.ntlworld.com wrote:
> news.ntlworld.com, (E-Mail Removed) escribió en el mensaje,
> <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000
>
>>Eric Gisin, ericg@10.11.12.13 escribió en el mensaje, <(E-Mail Removed)>, Sun, 16
>>Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800
>>
>>>You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.
>>>
>>
>>I just did that, and no problem was found.
>>Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be
>>configurated properly".
>>
>
> Im sorry I made a mistake, Scan Disk is reporting Bad clusters Not Bad Sectors

1) cabling
2) power supply


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After being targeted with gigabytes of trash by the "SWEN" worm, I have
concluded we must conceal our e-mail address. Our true address is the
mirror image of what you see before the "@" symbol. It's a shame such
steps are necessary. ...Charlie

"Svend Olaf Mikkelsen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000, news.ntlworld.com <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Eric Gisin, ericg@10.11.12.13 escribió en el mensaje, <(E-Mail Removed)>, Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800
> >> You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.
> >>
> >
> > I just did that, and no problem was found.
> > Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk,
> > it states "The disk may not be configurated properly".
>
> There is a serious Windows bug (the 32 GB problem), which Microsoft
> gives a benign description.

By benign, did you mean that bullshit where they try to shove off their
own stupidity on to Phoenix for offering different CHS translations
(that is limited to 8GB) when that obviously can't have anything to do
with problems that concern addressing above 32 GB?


> You may have run into the benign description:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;243450
>
> --
> Svend Olaf