Is it normal for new hardrives to have bad sectors?

imported_BK

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Feb 21, 2006
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I recently purchased a 60gig ata133 maxtor harddrive from an online vendor and upon formatting and scandisking it I was supprised there was around 2mb of bad sectors. I haven't had to purchase a new hardrive for about 6 years now and I was wondering if its common now for new hardrives to come with bad sectors?

When I get home tonight I'm going to run pwrmaxen on it to see if any other issues show up.

Thanks,
Will