Removal of bad sectors marked by CHKDSK

[Guest]

Hi Al,

Thanks for your reply.

To everyone else, I just wanted to thank you all as well.

It turned out, that after I re-installed XPpro on the New HDD(since copying
the working version, also copied the bad sector data to the new drive as
well. It was showing the same 8kb in bad sectors, even though, the brand new
HDD softwares showed nothing, none bad, marked etc..)

After reformatiing & re-installing XPpro on the newer HDD, I installed the
original HDD as a slave( the one with the 8kb in bad sectors still showing in
chkdsk, even though the software fixed them)

After using the HDD software to format the drive, I clean-installed an XP
home version on it. on the first CHKDSK /r
run, it came up 0kb in bad sectors...

I knew the smart drive fixed itself ..they(bad sectors) didn't show in the
software, only in WinXP...

Shouldn't there have been Registry entries, that I could have removed, which
would have removed the 8kb in bad sectors list?

This was the information I was looking for all along, I felt the issue was
not being addressed..but that all were, stating the same, about replacing a
drive which isn't bad...

I would have liked to have been able to keep my OS, copied over to the new
drive, less the 8kb bad sector listing...instead of having to do a clean
install, on the new disk, as I knew it didn't have 8kb in bad sectors as well

Kind Regards,

PCFM

 

[Guest]

Problem is, Win2k / XP doesn't offer a way to unmark these bad
clusters. Why not? It used to be possible with fat32.

See this was what I was wondering about, why not capable in XP, which is a
supposedly more advanced OS than win98?

PCFM

 

[Bob I]

Likely reason is that there is little use for such a product. "8 kb" of
bad sectors on a drive with 10's or 100's of GIGAbytes equates to ZERO.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Likely reason is that there is little use for such a product.
"8 kb"
of bad sectors on a drive with 10's or 100's of GIGAbytes
equates to
ZERO.

Besides 8KB being so little as to be inconsequential, trying to
unmark bad sectors is foolhardy. These were marked bad becasue
they *are* bad. If they are unmarked, and an important file gets
stored there, it's very likely that the file will be lost.