Bad Sectors

Could also be that the drive will fail soon. Perhaps when chkdsk (or
whatever) was testing it, the test criteria caused it to believe xyz sectors
were bad. If the drive is flaky, those tests could have different results
when you run them again. It's always good to keep a backup, but I wouldn't
be surprised if that drive eats some data of yours in the next year or two.

Garrett


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <farli@deru.com>
To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Sectors


> Hmmmm....is it possible that MS DOS is reporting bad blocks in error?
> Nah - MS software just works, works right, and works every time.
>
> ::cough cough::
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 09:47, Nathan England wrote:
> >
> > I have a hard drive that dos said had bad sectors. I booted the machine
with a
> > slackware live cd, and ran badblocks on it. badblocks -svvw
> >
> > Afterwards, it found no bad blocks, so I formatted it with ext3 and I'm
using
> > it now. It seems okay and I have filled it, deleted stuff, then filled
it
> > again. What is the deal with bad blocks? Are they really repairable? Are
they
> > not being used? Or am I going to be having problems soon?
> >
> > I don't know how the actual hardware works...
> >
> > nathan
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