Re: Removal of bad sectors marked by CHKDSK

From: PCfixinman (PCfixinman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:19:03 -0700

Hi Alex,

Windows CHKDSK, is still reporting "8kb in bad sectors"
in the report after chkdsk /F is run, then OS rebooted..
Norton's disk doctor, does the same, but adds free space & security
descriptors to a CHKDSK run...(I checked the box for it to do this, otherwise
it runs the regular 3 during a CHKDSK run)

I used the seagate's seatools, to run & fix
these bad sectors...during that run, it told me it was going to overwrite
the data in the 2 bad sectors, each one = 4kb's it even stated, this data was
named
 $badsect
which is why I cannot figure out why the OS is still reporting them...
and that I cannot find anything named $badsect
when I search the drive, with all hidden files, known file names, & hidden
protected files viewable...

Any Ideas?

TIA

PCFM

"Alex Nichol" wrote:

> PCfixinman wrote:
>
> >
> >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...
>
> What is reporting them as bad now? When bad sectors are so marked it is
> normally right down in a record on the disk for its own electronics to
> know about, and if the maker's software fixed the sectors it will have
> fixed these markers too - or more likely provided alternates which are
> picked up automatically and invisible to the OS
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
>

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