RE: Which disk is \Device\Harddisk5\D?

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From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:37:01 -0800

Even though you may not have initiated any event that would access a drive,
system management functions constantly monitor all drives.

Run chkdsk to identify and fix any problems, or other disk management /
scanning tools that you may have.

"George Petasis" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I keep getting an error about a bad block in \Device\Harddisk5\D.
> But how can I locate which disk it is?
>
> If I open the disk management, the 5th disk (disk 4) is a drive
> I haven't read/write to for ages. Is it possible that a bad block
> has been detected there?
> Its more probably the bad block is in one of my other disks, which I
> used severely these days, and a bad block may have formed. But how
> can I find out which disk it is, to replace it?
>
> George
>

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