Bad Sectors

[Jason]

My hard drives have a tendancy to develop Bad Sectors after using them
for a few months. My first HD, a Seagate, developed them after close
to a year of ownership. After that incident I replaced the surge
protector with a new one, and this time purchased a Maxtor HD.

The Maxtor drive was Win2000 based, but the bad sectors keep me from
running the OS. So im currently using the Win98 that was already on
there. My questions are, 1-)Does anyone think there might be a problem
with my motherboard which is causing the errors? 2-)Does anyone have
any suggestions aside from gasoline and a match for helping my bad
sector problems? 3-) If I re-partition my drive but only use the half
that isnt corrupted, will the current bad sectors spread anyway and
cause more damage?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Will Dormann]

My hard drives have a tendancy to develop Bad Sectors after using them
for a few months. My first HD, a Seagate, developed them after close
to a year of ownership. After that incident I replaced the surge
protector with a new one, and this time purchased a Maxtor HD.

From what I gather there are at least two things that contribute to the
premature failure of a hard drive:

1) A flakey PSU
2) Excessive temperature

You can check for the latter using the program called DTemp. (Though I
don't believe it will work with Western Digital drives). You should
want around 42C or less


-WD

 

[Rod Speed]

Jason wrote:

From what I gather there are at least two things that
contribute to the premature failure of a hard drive:

1) A flakey PSU
2) Excessive temperature

Can also be physical abuse like in a case that
gets kicked around with the drive spinning.

You can check for the latter using the program called DTemp.
(Though I don't believe it will work with Western Digital drives).

It does with the latest ones now.