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Drive health in WinXP [Poll included]

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thereaderrabbit

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I recently moved my OS and other files over to a new drive after experiencing problems accessing some of my files (which included the hard drive making strange noises followed by a hardware error). The new drive works great (I knew Raptors were fast, but wow).

Help?
So I've gotten all the stuff off of my damaged drive that I could and then reformatted it. While reformatting the drive makes bad noises at two points (same sounds as before). After formatting the drive is ready to go. On Win98 I'd be told about good and bad sectors. No such luck in WinXP. This makes me worry about using this drive further. Is there a Drive health tool for WinXP? Should I just scrap the drive? (Right now it's intended for use as a scratch + games disk).

Thanks in advance : )
 
If you did a full format, it already identified the bad sectors.

If you did a quick format, then run chkdsk /r and reboot.
 
Right click on the drive and select properties then tools then error checking. Check both boxes and let it run. I've noticed that doing a chkdsk /r and the method I said differ. The first method does 5 checks. The 2nd method only does 3 checks.
 
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