Bad Sectors

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http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Big question. Is this a new drive????They quit making
drives that small years ago.

"sheppardwk" wrote in message
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| When I rebooted my laptop the other day, it indicated that there were
some
| bad sectors found and that I should run Scandisk. Once the scandisk was
| completed, it than began a surface scan. (I just replaced the hard
drive one
| month ago with an IBM Travelstar 6.0) The surface scan was agonizingly
slow.
| It would find a bad sector and ask if I wanted to "Fix It", which I did.
| After approximately 9 hours it had only completed 50% of the scan -
1,500,000
| sectors, completed scanning 800,000 and found 60 bad sectors. While
| attempting to move the laptop to another room, I unplugged the power
source
| and the computer froze. What could have caused bad sectors, how do I
fix
| it, and should the scan take so long?
|
| Thanks.