Re: Bad Sectors?
From: Steve Nielsen (steve_nielsen_at_nospam.nowhere.net)
Date: 05/18/04
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:56:04 -0700
BiGdoGg wrote:
> For some reason my original post never showed up?????????????? This is the
> 3rd time? Humm...
>
> Here goes again..
>
> My Dell D-600 laptop has blue screened a few times and I think it was
> related to a driver issue. It's been running fine now for a 6 months but I
> was searching my hard drive for large files and I found one the was 1.5 Gig
> it was in a folder names FOUND.000 and I had two more called FOUND.001 &
> FOUND.002? Are these folders that backed up corrupted files from scan disk?
> I'm not sure what they are. Are they OK to delete? 1.5 Gig to me is alot
> of hard drive space that I need. I figured it was something that scan disk
> created while scanning my laptop for problems with the hard drive.
>
> Thanks in Advanced,
>
> BiG
>
>
They are recovered data that CHKDSK (not Scandisk - there is no Scandisk
in XP) got from lost clusters and file fragments. Safe to delete.
Usually the data contained in them is unusable anyway. It's a leftover
from the good ol' days when user data was mostly plain text and you
could open recovered files and salvage meaningful information from them.
Bad sectors are data blocks on the disk that can't be read reliably.
Running CHKDSK /R scans for these and attempts to relocate any user data
in them (if any are found) to other locations on the disk, then flag the
"bad" sectors as unusable.
Steve
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