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Bad Sectors...
Hi guys,
I’ve just run chkdsk and much to my surprise it appears I’ve got 12Kb of Bad Sectors? I’m using 2x 4-month-old 160GB Samsung SpinPoints in RAID0 using NTFS.
I’d tried to fix them in Windows with ScanDisk to no avail? What should I do now? Am I worrying unnecessarily? It’s just I’ve never had any experience of Bad Sectors before…
They don't appear to be causing any problems (yet? But I was always lead to understand that ANY bad sectors were a bad thing! And that any amount could lead to a total disk failure... I'm just trying to sort it out early if there’s a problem brewing? There under a 3 yr manufactures warranty.
Does anyone know of any Windows based cure or diagnostics app that could quash my fears
What should I do?
Cheers,
SW.
Edit: Hi guys,
Just run another ScanDisk and it would now appear that I have 1100Kb of bad sectors
Is it now safe to assume that there on their way out
Is there anyway I can find out which one of the two drive is faulty?
Latest: I did a Norton 'Disk Doctor' check earlier today and it reported no bad sectors? I then ran 'chkdsk /f' and restarted my machine, and it again found that there were 1100kbs of bad sectors?
This evening I ran Norton again and it found 1100kb... What’s going on?
I understand that these Samsung drives are under a 3yr warranty? Does anyone know what the returns procedure is? Who do I get in touch with first? The people who I bought the drives from? Or the manufacture?
And can someone tell me if there is a way to determine which of the two drives is faulty, or could they both be faulty?
Cheers,
SW.
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