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Bad Sectors
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. |
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Seems very odd to have twp diskd develope bad sectors in such a short period
of time. Wonder what the real cause is. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Bad Sectors
Seems very odd to have twp diskd develope bad sectors in such a short period
of time. Wonder what the real cause is. "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... 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. |
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That hard drive is no good. You may have replaced it a month ago, but perhaps you
got a bad drive, or a used or refurbished one. Where did you get the drive? IBM has been out of the hard drive business for quite a while. Hitachi bought their drive division, and supports the Travelstar: http://www.hitachigst.com/travelstar -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Bad Sectors
That hard drive is no good. You may have replaced it a month ago, but perhaps you
got a bad drive, or a used or refurbished one. Where did you get the drive? IBM has been out of the hard drive business for quite a while. Hitachi bought their drive division, and supports the Travelstar: http://www.hitachigst.com/travelstar -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "sheppardwk" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Hi,
Bad sectors don't get better with time. Once Windows starts finding them, it'll always keep finding more. It's a bum drive that should be returned to where you got it. ---==X={}=X==--- Jim Self AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository. http://avanimation.avsupport.com Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans. http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Technical Counselor |
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Bad Sectors
Hi,
Bad sectors don't get better with time. Once Windows starts finding them, it'll always keep finding more. It's a bum drive that should be returned to where you got it. ---==X={}=X==--- Jim Self AVIATION ANIMATION, the internet's largest depository. http://avanimation.avsupport.com Your only internet source for spiral staircase plans. http://jself.com/stair/Stair.htm Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Technical Counselor |
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:33:30 -0400, PA20Pilot in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote: Hi, Bad sectors don't get better with time. Once Windows starts finding them, it'll always keep finding more. It's a bum drive that should be returned to where you got it. I disagree with both assertions. Well, just the 'keep finding more' for the out of the box Win 98 product. I got a 1 gig Maxtor about 1997 (well it was big for the time) and Norton found several bad sectors within a month. I used the disk as a slave disk when disks got roomier. In all i used it about 6 years. Never was another bad sector found. FACE |
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Bad Sectors
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:33:30 -0400, PA20Pilot in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote: Hi, Bad sectors don't get better with time. Once Windows starts finding them, it'll always keep finding more. It's a bum drive that should be returned to where you got it. I disagree with both assertions. Well, just the 'keep finding more' for the out of the box Win 98 product. I got a 1 gig Maxtor about 1997 (well it was big for the time) and Norton found several bad sectors within a month. I used the disk as a slave disk when disks got roomier. In all i used it about 6 years. Never was another bad sector found. FACE |
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Get the drive fitness test from this page.
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 ... | 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. |
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