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Bad Sector probs with harddrives

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Cynicism

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how do ppl usually solve these probs? These things always force the windows beginning programs to startup before Windows starts and I have to "spacebar" through them b/c they take forever (on 40/80 gig Maxtors) and everything seems fine on the drives...

The Maxtor program that supposedly helps to solve these issues are total garbage and said my drives were ok...

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
You speak like it's a raid array, if it is then the drives are probably ok. If it's not then you should RMA the drive(s), bad sectors indicate failing harddrives...
 
I don't know your skill level so I'm going to explain something that you may already know. Bad sectors are different than corrupted files. Bad sectors are something that is marked by scandisk as a bad block and will no longer ever be used by the computer again to store data. It's basically permanent damage to the disk structure. Bad sectors can be viewed in the disk summary after a check by chkdsk (or other tool), once marked you can't unmark them without a lowlevel format (not recommended on IDE). On the otherhand if you are simply having files being corrupted than the problem is NOT the physical drive. 90% of file corruption is user related.
 
no file corruption, all files are square...just the annoying message from scandisk is the only problem here....thanks for the info, no more maxtors for me 🙁
 
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