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Old April 17th 07, 10:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
philo
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Default HDD suddenly has bad sectors


"SpamMePlease(NOT)" wrote in message
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Hi

Have a hdd which has suddenly developed bad sectors/clusters.

Currently I cannot boot to windows so I booted to the command prompt and

ran
a surface scan dos utility with the auto fix switch.

This surface scan dos utility has been running day and night for 4 days

and
has 1200+ bad clusters.

What I want to know is whether the bad clusters it is marking as bad
clusters will be permanetely marked as such; i.e. the hdd will know not to
use this space again even if I try to restore an image of the partition?



Don't waste your time...
install a new HD!!!!