Bad Sectors?

[BiGdoGg]

For some reason my original post never showed up?????????????? This is the
3rd time? Humm...

Here goes again..

My Dell D-600 laptop has blue screened a few times and I think it was
related to a driver issue. It's been running fine now for a 6 months but I
was searching my hard drive for large files and I found one the was 1.5 Gig
it was in a folder names FOUND.000 and I had two more called FOUND.001 &
FOUND.002? Are these folders that backed up corrupted files from scan disk?
I'm not sure what they are. Are they OK to delete? 1.5 Gig to me is alot
of hard drive space that I need. I figured it was something that scan disk
created while scanning my laptop for problems with the hard drive.

Thanks in Advanced,

BiG

 

[Phil]

Yes the files get created from running scandisk. They are safe to delete,
especially after 6 months.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

For some reason my original post never showed up?????????????? This is the
3rd time? Humm...

Here goes again..

My Dell D-600 laptop has blue screened a few times and I think it was
related to a driver issue. It's been running fine now for a 6 months but I
was searching my hard drive for large files and I found one the was 1.5 Gig
it was in a folder names FOUND.000 and I had two more called FOUND.001 &
FOUND.002? Are these folders that backed up corrupted files from scan disk?
I'm not sure what they are. Are they OK to delete? 1.5 Gig to me is alot
of hard drive space that I need. I figured it was something that scan disk
created while scanning my laptop for problems with the hard drive.

Thanks in Advanced,

BiG

They are recovered data that CHKDSK (not Scandisk - there is no Scandisk
in XP) got from lost clusters and file fragments. Safe to delete.
Usually the data contained in them is unusable anyway. It's a leftover
from the good ol' days when user data was mostly plain text and you
could open recovered files and salvage meaningful information from them.

Bad sectors are data blocks on the disk that can't be read reliably.
Running CHKDSK /R scans for these and attempts to relocate any user data
in them (if any are found) to other locations on the disk, then flag the
"bad" sectors as unusable.

Steve

 

[Frank]

This is probably a DELL problem. Microsoft does not support
OEM versions that are mostly crippled.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

They are "ALL" there. Look for them!

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[CZ]

This is probably a DELL problem. Microsoft does not support
OEM versions that are mostly crippled.

Frank:

MS does not support OEM versions period.

However, my Dell Win XP Pro CD disc is a not a crippled version. Recently,
I used it to setup XP Pro on a larger hard disk, and as a test installed it
on a non-Dell computer. It is not a "recovery" only disk.