bad sectors

[Joe]

I have bad sectors on my hard drive and can tell a
difference in performance of my XP operating system is
there anything I can do to fix this problem?

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Yes replace your harddrive, if you have a bad block then
that block is bad, you can try a low level format or just
replace the drive, in which you will have to reload windows
and you can use Norton's Ghost

Alvin

 

[BR549]

Backup your data ASAP and then go shopping for a replacement disk. Did I
mention backup your data.

 

[Bob Harris]

A few bad sctors is actually fairly common, even on otherwise good hard
drives. however, if the number of bad sectors increases with time, then get
a new disk, fast.

XP has the ability to "avoid" using bad sectors, if they are marked as such.
Run CHKDSK C: /R, sya "Y" when asked, and reboot. This may take a long time
(hours).