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Hi all,
I got advice, that the HDD, could be going bad, although Dell will not
replace the drive until there are more than 20kb in bad sectors, under
warranty...
I bought a new 60GB 7200rpm hitachi(travelstar) 2.5" HDD
I copied the OS, from the old drive with 8kb in bad sectors(two 4kb sectors)
to the new drive. I ran the software, to check the disk, no bad sectors
found...
upon boot, I ran CHKDSK /F
rebooted
8kb in bad sectors shows up...
I run the Hitachi software,again it shows no bad sectors on this new drive
It seems the reported bad sectors copied over....
Why would this happen?
how to fix it...
Please...
PCFM
here are my questions now
**If the drive, has marked these sectors bad, then isn't is feasible, that
they should no longer show as bad sectors during a CHKDSK on the OS of a
S.M.A.R.T HDD ???
***
They are no longer considered bad correct?
***
Why is windows still showing them as bad, they aren't right?
***
Windows had marked them bad during the first CHKDSK /F I ran...
I'm assuming that the seatools, having overwritten these sectors with
o1o1o1o1 fixed the sectors, similar to a low-level format, just of these 2
bad clusters...it reported, the 2 files data as windows reported it as:
$badsect
$badsect
Then it overwrote the data with zeros & ones...
Had I thought it important I would have saved this to the floppy, when
asked, but knowing they were the data XP used to mark bad sectors, I figured
on the next CHKDSK run, they would be gone...
This is, what XP used to mark bad sectors, it finds..true?
Now that these files no longer exist, I want to know how to tell XP, there
ARE NO BAD SECTORS so it stops showing them as bad..on that drive
Let's forget that the drive had/has bad sectors
please...
This is about getting ,my OS which runs fine, onto a new HDD without these
bad sectors marked following...
I think this would be like if I pulled a program, out of windows by deleting
it
(instead of using add/remove propgrams)
but let the Registry entries in
windows would think the program was still there, until I tried to run it, &
got a missing file error..right?
Is there a place in the registry, I can remove the registry entries, that
have these sectors marked bad still?
A place in the registry where $badsect entries, are stored
It's been over 3 weeks, since this happened..
it happened during the first CHKDSK run, I ever did ...I'm not sure if XP
ever tried running it on it's own...
Since this drive hasn't got more bad sectors, I'm satisfied the drive, as of
this time, will not fail..I back-up all pertinent data...just in case..
Anyway, Dell is not replacing a drive that only had 2 bad sectors, which are
no longer showing with their 90/90 DIAG software...they say it is fixed....
If it did get more, I figure they would have to replace it..
I already got a faster drive, then this stock 40GB 4200 RPM for a 60GB 7200
RPM Hitachi...but just like someone stated previously...
when they copied their win2000 pro OS, over to another drive, it carried,
the bad sectors files with it...
This is why I'm looking to get rid of, wherever the $badsect, or whatever
the file, reg entry etc.. is causing this bad sector info to transfer..
(when I copied it, to the new drive it showed 8kb in bad sectors on the new
drive too!!!)
I got advice, that the HDD, could be going bad, although Dell will not
replace the drive until there are more than 20kb in bad sectors, under
warranty...
I bought a new 60GB 7200rpm hitachi(travelstar) 2.5" HDD
I copied the OS, from the old drive with 8kb in bad sectors(two 4kb sectors)
to the new drive. I ran the software, to check the disk, no bad sectors
found...
upon boot, I ran CHKDSK /F
rebooted
8kb in bad sectors shows up...
I run the Hitachi software,again it shows no bad sectors on this new drive
It seems the reported bad sectors copied over....
Why would this happen?
how to fix it...
Please...
PCFM
here are my questions now
**If the drive, has marked these sectors bad, then isn't is feasible, that
they should no longer show as bad sectors during a CHKDSK on the OS of a
S.M.A.R.T HDD ???
***
They are no longer considered bad correct?
***
Why is windows still showing them as bad, they aren't right?
***
Windows had marked them bad during the first CHKDSK /F I ran...
I'm assuming that the seatools, having overwritten these sectors with
o1o1o1o1 fixed the sectors, similar to a low-level format, just of these 2
bad clusters...it reported, the 2 files data as windows reported it as:
$badsect
$badsect
Then it overwrote the data with zeros & ones...
Had I thought it important I would have saved this to the floppy, when
asked, but knowing they were the data XP used to mark bad sectors, I figured
on the next CHKDSK run, they would be gone...
This is, what XP used to mark bad sectors, it finds..true?
Now that these files no longer exist, I want to know how to tell XP, there
ARE NO BAD SECTORS so it stops showing them as bad..on that drive
Let's forget that the drive had/has bad sectors
please...
This is about getting ,my OS which runs fine, onto a new HDD without these
bad sectors marked following...
I think this would be like if I pulled a program, out of windows by deleting
it
(instead of using add/remove propgrams)
but let the Registry entries in
windows would think the program was still there, until I tried to run it, &
got a missing file error..right?
Is there a place in the registry, I can remove the registry entries, that
have these sectors marked bad still?
A place in the registry where $badsect entries, are stored
It's been over 3 weeks, since this happened..
it happened during the first CHKDSK run, I ever did ...I'm not sure if XP
ever tried running it on it's own...
Since this drive hasn't got more bad sectors, I'm satisfied the drive, as of
this time, will not fail..I back-up all pertinent data...just in case..
Anyway, Dell is not replacing a drive that only had 2 bad sectors, which are
no longer showing with their 90/90 DIAG software...they say it is fixed....
If it did get more, I figure they would have to replace it..
I already got a faster drive, then this stock 40GB 4200 RPM for a 60GB 7200
RPM Hitachi...but just like someone stated previously...
when they copied their win2000 pro OS, over to another drive, it carried,
the bad sectors files with it...
This is why I'm looking to get rid of, wherever the $badsect, or whatever
the file, reg entry etc.. is causing this bad sector info to transfer..
(when I copied it, to the new drive it showed 8kb in bad sectors on the new
drive too!!!)