bad sector in harddisk

[pk]

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.

 

[Dave]

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

 

[Guest]

-----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