Re: Removal of bad sectors marked by CHKDSK
From: davexnet02 (davexnetzerotwo_at_hooya!.com)
Date: 10/16/04
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 20:01:31 GMT
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:49:05 -0700, "PCfixinman"
<PCfixinman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>Thanks for the reply... The strange thing, is that the bad sectors were
>fixed...Not only do they not show up, in any hdd software utlity, but the
>drive no loger is sluggish..
>
>I know if I re-install XP pro, it will report 0 in bad sectors...
>
>Do you know how I can remove what XP marked as bad, to see if it finds them
>bad again?
>
>so far, there have been no more goin g bad, I think this is due to those 2
>having been fixed...
>
>TIA,
>
There's a legitimate reason for doing this.
I cloned a win2k partition that happened to have 2 bad clusters
marked in the $badclus database.
because the clone tool copied everything as is, the
2 bad sectors showed up in the cloned win2k - purely
as a result of the way it was copied.
Reinstall will get rid of it. The only other solution
I have seen was a Linux utiliy, believe it or not.
It involved creating a bootable linux cdrom.
This linux boots from the CD and that's the system.
No install is done to the harddrive. But once you have that,
you can run a utility to "reset" the bad clusters.
I can't find the details (web page) at the moment, but if you're
interested, I'll look for it.
Dave
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