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Grendel
Hi,
I have had my Seagate 160GB drive (as recommend on here I believe) for only
a few weeks now and it's reporting bad sectors (in Event Viewer and using
the tools on the cd that came with it).
However, the bad sectors are not always in the same place, as sometimes I
can't copy certain files due to bad sectors and the copy fails, but other
times the copying is fine.
Is this normal behaviour for bad sectors? I would have thought that if
there was a bad sector, then I would never be able to copy the file.
It's also always only one partition (out of three). I'm thinking of just
formatting this partition and copying everything back on again.
Or should I just send it back?
Thanks,
Grendel.
I have had my Seagate 160GB drive (as recommend on here I believe) for only
a few weeks now and it's reporting bad sectors (in Event Viewer and using
the tools on the cd that came with it).
However, the bad sectors are not always in the same place, as sometimes I
can't copy certain files due to bad sectors and the copy fails, but other
times the copying is fine.
Is this normal behaviour for bad sectors? I would have thought that if
there was a bad sector, then I would never be able to copy the file.
It's also always only one partition (out of three). I'm thinking of just
formatting this partition and copying everything back on again.
Or should I just send it back?
Thanks,
Grendel.