Recurring Chkdsk errors

[Guest]

I am using a 160 GB Maxtor "One Touch" external USB drive for backing up my
system. I run Synchback SE every night by the task scheduler. Synchback
shuts down the system by executing the "shutdown /s" command after completing
the backup program.

I ran Chkdsk about a month ago and found some bad clusters on the backup
drive. I ran chkdsk again today and got the following results:

Adding 6 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

160071628 KB total disk space.
94417680 KB in 115615 files.
46336 KB in 22374 indexes.
2440 KB in bad sectors.
235856 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
65369316 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
40017907 total allocation units on disk.
16342329 allocation units available on disk.

This leads me to suspect that my backup HDD is slowly going bad, but I've
never had this problem before so I don't know for sure. Is there some other
explanation for these errors? For example, could the "shutdown /s" command
be shutting down the hard drive improperly? I expected that HDDs went out
at a faster rate than this slow, agonizing death.

TIA,

Alex

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Download Maxtor's disk diagnostics and run them. They will tell you if
your disk has a problem and what to do about it (backup and return the
disk under warranty.)

 

[Guest]

Good idea. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

Alex

Download Maxtor's disk diagnostics and run them. They will tell you if
your disk has a problem and what to do about it (backup and return the
disk under warranty.)