BAD SECTORS ERROR

From: Bobby (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:10:14 -0700

Hi, I did a CHKDSK on my C:\ drive (1st Partition)
It says it has 8 bad sectors on it. What steps do I, or
can I take to correct and fix these bad sectors on my
primary partition (1) c:\ drive to correct this error.

C:\>CHKDSK
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

  34242515 KB total disk space.
  11751792 KB in 32940 files.
     13488 KB in 2671 indexes.
         8 KB in bad sectors.
    108823 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
  22368404 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
   8560628 total allocation units on disk.
   5592101 allocation units available on disk.

C:\>

When I imply the ( CHKDSK /F ) it does not fix the problem.
I even restated the server and let the operating system
try to fix the problem that way. And it does not ( even by
trying several times ).

("I wish Microsoft would make a special tool for this")

I removed the Hardrive from the 1st server and placed it
as a slave on the second server (with the same OS
installed "Windows 2000 Pro") Then i tryed to do the same
task ( CHKDSK /F ), and it still wont fix the problem.

Also, when i tryed on the 1st server with this drive
mounted and windows running, to do a "Defrag Procedure",
It goes until a certain point, then it makes my OS Re-Boot
into a ( BSOD Screen ) as it starts to count up.

NOTE: If i make a image of the drive, will it take the bad
sectors with it.
Is it software based or Hardware based error??
Also, are there any partucular software to fix this,
Such as Norton ect. ect.

===>> I set up a Temporary E-Mail for responses of this
problem. dj1newyork@aol.com

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