bad clusters

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Hi

I have a new maxtor drive which was working fine.
Last week when running windows disk check it hanged with bad clusters?

is this a disk check related problem or is the drive defective?
is the a better disk check util?

Hod
 
hodw said:
Hi

I have a new maxtor drive which was working fine.
Last week when running windows disk check it hanged with bad clusters?

is this a disk check related problem or is the drive defective?
is the a better disk check util?

Hod
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Bad clusters are evidence of physical damage to your drive. Do a full
backup on a seperate media ASAP.

Except the nomencature is mixed, so I'm not quite sure which of the 2
problems you actually have.

"lost clusters" is a filesystem anomaly. Possibly caused by shutting
down improperly. Nothing to worry about.

"bad sectors" is a hardware problem. Though a number of viruses have
been known to fake out chkdsk.
 
hodw said:
The problem is not lost clusters but bad sectors.
Is there a util to fix them
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Not relaibly. Chkdsk, when attempting repairs will try to read the
information off of them and relocate it to a good area of the hard
disk.

There is a utility called spinrite that CLAIMS to have this ability.
THey've been in the business for several years. I've not had the
opportunity to try this myself so can't vouch.

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
http://grc.com/srrecovery.htm
 
Hi

I have a new maxtor drive which was working fine.
Last week when running windows disk check it hanged with bad clusters?

is this a disk check related problem or is the drive defective?
is the a better disk check util?

Hod
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Please limit posts to one thread per problem,

Thank you.
 
Not relaibly. Chkdsk, when attempting repairs will try to read the
information off of them and relocate it to a good area of the hard
disk.

There is a utility called spinrite that CLAIMS to have this ability.
THey've been in the business for several years. I've not had the
opportunity to try this myself so can't vouch.

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
http://grc.com/srrecovery.htm
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Spinrite really does work but at its more thorough settings it can take
an incredibly long time to work through even a moderately-sized drive.
 
hodw said:
Hi

I have a new maxtor drive which was working fine.
Last week when running windows disk check it hanged with bad clusters?

is this a disk check related problem or is the drive defective?
is the a better disk check util?
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if it did not come with your drive...
go to maxtor's website and get their diagnostic utility...
if it finds a problem be sure to baackup your data at once and get an RMA
for a warranty replacement
 
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