OK... we all are familuar with BAD clusters appearing on HDD's. Recently I had 3 out of 4 new IBM Deskstars start having bad clusters at a very early age. I wrote IBM an email asking their advice. They replyed staiting that bad clusters are commonly caused by faulty software. That be told I just take more effort in scaning my IBM drives now.
A few days ago an old 8GB Seagate HDD started acting very odd. I decided to format the drive and reinstall the OS (it needed this anyway). During the format 48 BAD clusters where detected. After the format I ran scandisk... 42 more where detected.... on the second scandisk pass 2 more.
I have searched meny forums for simular topics and just wanted to ask what everyones opinions are. I realize that most of the information I find on the subject is simply someones opinion (even IBM's).
What causes BAD clusters?
Will a low level format really fix BAD clusters and will they return soon after?
If a drive has rapidly appearing BAD clusters (92 out of 2,058,308 as mention above), still use it ??
A few days ago an old 8GB Seagate HDD started acting very odd. I decided to format the drive and reinstall the OS (it needed this anyway). During the format 48 BAD clusters where detected. After the format I ran scandisk... 42 more where detected.... on the second scandisk pass 2 more.
I have searched meny forums for simular topics and just wanted to ask what everyones opinions are. I realize that most of the information I find on the subject is simply someones opinion (even IBM's).
What causes BAD clusters?
Will a low level format really fix BAD clusters and will they return soon after?
If a drive has rapidly appearing BAD clusters (92 out of 2,058,308 as mention above), still use it ??
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