• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Bad sectors?

runzwithsizorz

runzwithsizorz

Diamond Member
Please correct me if I'm wrong; but from my experience once a hard drive
developes bad sectors it continues to to get worse.My 40gig HD maker sent
me a piece of software, which claims to have fixed it,but I think all it did was isolate it. The drive is still under warranty,I just want to RMA,
but now they want me to do a low level format. What say you?
 
Low level format will just "put" all the bad sectors aside so they won't get written on (I hope I got that right, that's what someone told me). But I agree that if it has bad sectors already, formatting and reinstalling your OS and software will only continue to have problems sooner or later down the line. But then again, if you send it for an RMA, it's not a guarantee that you're going to get a new drive.
 
Thanks for response; just what I thought,and if it weren't under warranty
thats just what I'd do.As to the RMA; I let them hold my credit card # ;
and they send a new one first, I then use their packaging to send the
bad one back. I once did this with IBM; they sent me a 13gig to replace my 8gig, seems they no longer made the 8;(lucky me). Funny, if you asked
me years ago if I be able to use more than 5gigs I'd have said no way!
I now Fill 30, with another 30 for vid editing.
 
OOPS; sorry ojai00, I should have stated that the drive I'm having probs
with is a Maxtor; But thanks for the link,I do have a couple of IBM's
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top