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Bad sectors on a new drive
I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan
Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? Thanks for your advice. |
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"news.ntlworld.com" wrote in message .com... I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? NO! Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? Probably not. What to do next is the question. It may be a bad HD or just some other artifact. How much time do you want to spend finding out? |
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You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics.
"news.ntlworld.com" wrote in message .com... | I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan | Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. | Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? | Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? | | Thanks for your advice. | |
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"Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "news.ntlworld.com" wrote in message .com... I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? NO! NO! to what, imposter? Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? Probably not. What to do next is the question. It may be a bad HD or just some other artifact. How much time do you want to spend finding out? |
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news.ntlworld.com wrote:
I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? Thanks for your advice. Modern drives should remap bad sectors so you don't see them until the point at which they overwhelm the spares available. Modern drives also generally have S.M.A.R.T. capabilities which may be helpful in determining what's wrong. Seagate drives in my experience have been pretty good -- I would suspect your cabling and/or power supply. -- After being targeted with gigabytes of trash by the "SWEN" worm, I have concluded we must conceal our e-mail address. Our true address is the mirror image of what you see before the "@" symbol. It's a shame such steps are necessary. ...Charlie |
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Eric Gisin, escribi=F3 en el mensaje, bp9121013no@enews3=
..newsguy.com, Sun, 16=20 Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800 You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics= .. =20 I just did that, and no problem was found.=20 Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it state= s "The disk may not be=20 configurated properly". |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000, news.ntlworld.com
wrote: Eric Gisin, escribió en el mensaje, , Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800 You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics. I just did that, and no problem was found. Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be configurated properly". There is a serious Windows bug (the 32 GB problem), which Microsoft gives a benign description. You may have run into the benign description: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;243450 -- Svend Olaf |
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news.ntlworld.com wrote:
news.ntlworld.com, escribió en el mensaje, , Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000 Eric Gisin, escribió en el mensaje, , Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800 You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics. I just did that, and no problem was found. Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be configurated properly". Im sorry I made a mistake, Scan Disk is reporting Bad clusters Not Bad Sectors 1) cabling 2) power supply -- After being targeted with gigabytes of trash by the "SWEN" worm, I have concluded we must conceal our e-mail address. Our true address is the mirror image of what you see before the "@" symbol. It's a shame such steps are necessary. ...Charlie |
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"Svend Olaf Mikkelsen" wrote in message ... On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:53:17 -0000, news.ntlworld.com wrote: Eric Gisin, escribió en el mensaje, , Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:10:21 -0800 You should download SeaTools, copy it to floppy, and run full diagnostics. I just did that, and no problem was found. Norton disk doctor (Norton Utility 2000) will not run on the disk, it states "The disk may not be configurated properly". There is a serious Windows bug (the 32 GB problem), which Microsoft gives a benign description. By benign, did you mean that bull**** where they try to shove off their own stupidity on to Phoenix for offering different CHS translations (that is limited to 8GB) when that obviously can't have anything to do with problems that concern addressing above 32 GB? You may have run into the benign description: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;243450 -- Svend Olaf |
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