Are bad clusters the same as bad sectors?

[alluu]

I have a Maxtor 60GB 7200 RPM HD and just ran WinXP disk check and it replaced 4 bad clusters. Are these the same as a bad sector and should I start worrying about this drive dying. When I run chkdsk and the summary shows up with your HD stats, it says that there are no bad sectors?

 

[Scatterpack]

No & No

 

[alluu]

Can you elaborate a little more. Thanks

 

[Budman]

no they are not the same & no your hd's fine it's just the data that's bad.

 

[Mitzi]

Bad Clusters - corrupt data (can be caused by machine crashing whilst writing to hard drive etc) - to fix simply delete the corrupt data.
Bad Sectors - physically damaged hard drive platter - is no fix but can mark sectors as bad to prevent further writing to damaged area.

Don't worry - your hard drive is fine.

Edit: Typos