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Help on Disk with bad sector

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I have a 160GB hard drive that housed many of my music files. Unfortunately the disk had serious problems with bad sectors and I actually lost some files on that disk. After running check disk, I was able to stabilize the disk and backup its data somewhere on my network.

So after I backup everything, I formatted the drive and run another checkdisk as shown below. The disk has no apparent problem (or so it seems like). Should I try to RMA the drive, toss it or put it back in my system and store my files?

What are your experiences? Thx.

chkdsk results:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk f:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Music.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
64 file records processed.
File verification completed.
0 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
165 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
5 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
64 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
10 data files processed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

156288320 KB total disk space.
3093568 KB in 6 files.
12 KB in 12 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
70788 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
153123952 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
39072080 total allocation units on disk.
38280988 allocation units available on disk.
 
what does smartctl -a report about the drive? See smartmontools for more info. Check the reallocated sectors statistic.
 
Originally posted by: smthmlk
what does smartctl -a report about the drive? See smartmontools for more info. Check the reallocated sectors statistic.
Click to expand...

Other things to check:
- Current Pending Sectors
- Off-Line uncorrectable sector count
- write error rate


Also try checking it out using the manufacturer's disk tools.
 
yeah, without the indepth 2 hour or so surface scan, chkdsk isn't going to report anything all that reliable. I'd go with RMA though. I had this problem with a seagate drive a few months ago. The OS was half going, I formatted, check the disk from a linux live cd, it worked solid for another week and was just long enough to waste my time getting everything setup again. Then it tanked horribly and decided to erase the core OS components again. It probably is going to do that to you too.
 
best you read up on CHKDSK parameters

from you post
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Got to manufactorers web site and
find out what you have to do to RMA the drive
 
Yes, I've downloaded seagate utility and ran a full test againts the HD. Definitely a bad HD and I am hoping it is still under warranty and RMA-able

Thx all !
 
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