Bad Sector

[Guest]

My system hung on an app and I reset. Chkdsk showed 32k in Bad Sector. Does
this mean I have 32k of data in a bad sector or that I have a 32k physical
sector that is bad? If I use the command that I found in another post
chkdsk /f /r , will it try to move it to a good location? I recall
y-e-a-r-s ago that Windows or Norton did that. This is the first encounter I
have had in many years, so I'm not up to
speed in this area. Is there a "freeware" porgram that I can use to check
the integrity of my drive? I tried Norton Utilities 2005 Pro and it checked
the D drive fine, then hung on 0 percent for the C drive. I rebooted and it
kept hanging. I had to "Last Know Good..." to get back to Windows. Even Safe
Mode would not load. Restored and all is fine. So - Norton is out of the
question.

BTW - I do not seem to have any problems. Just concerned about the 32K.
WinXP Pro SP2 all updates. Maxtor 60gig 6Y060L0.

 

[Richard Urban]

You can use HDTune from http://www.hdtune.com/ to check your hard drive and
see a visual representation of it's condition.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Richard -
Thanks for the link. I installed the program and noted that my HD was
running at 128*F and past critical of 131*F when running other apps. I moved
the drive to another slot with a fan and immediately dropped to 105*F. Ran
the Quick Scan, producing no problems. Will run the regular when I close for
the night.

Thanks!!!!
Don

 

[Richard Urban]

Glad to help.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Ran the program and it identified a bad sector. Questions that remains
unanswered is - Has the data been recovered? Is the sector marked as bad? No
respnse for HDTune yet.

Found Chhdsk in My Computer with the option to Scan for and attempt recovery
of bad sectors. Question: Are the Bad Sectors marked?

Have you heard of http://www.floborecoverysoft.com? Sounds almost too good,
but....

Thanks again,
Don

 

[Richard Urban]

HDTune "recovers" nothing. It is just an visual indicator of problems with
your drive.

IF the information can be recovered, chkdsk will do it. Unfortunately you
never really know if this has happened.

You may have corrupted or missing data that will not be noticed until you go
to run that little used program three weeks from now. Then you find it
crashing. Of course you do not associate this problem with the bad block.
People never do. (-:

Replace the drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!