Hello all.
Last week I started having serious problems with one of my drives. Some 'delayed write' error on my $MFT. And afterwards chkdsk and norton disk doctor kept reporting a small ammount of bad sectors.
I RMA'd it and had a cross-ship sent to me. I received the new drive today and recovered my data from the faulty drive. In the process I had to reboot several times after the transfer crashed my computer and I had to wait for the faulty drive to cool down before I could start over. In the end all my files were transferred successfully.
I then did a 'quick format' on it and then ran chkdsk with the option to scan for and try to recover bad sectors.
When I now run norton disk doctor on the faulty drive, it now says there are no more bad sectors. I feel kind of bad sending the drive back now if there's no bad sectors on it ! Though I don't fully test the report.
I was just wondering.. can bad sectors be fixed with a full format ?? I'm going to send it back one way or another because I really don't trust it, specially after the clicking noises and beeps it made today when I was trying to recover the data.. but why is it showing no bad sectors anymore ??
Last week I started having serious problems with one of my drives. Some 'delayed write' error on my $MFT. And afterwards chkdsk and norton disk doctor kept reporting a small ammount of bad sectors.
I RMA'd it and had a cross-ship sent to me. I received the new drive today and recovered my data from the faulty drive. In the process I had to reboot several times after the transfer crashed my computer and I had to wait for the faulty drive to cool down before I could start over. In the end all my files were transferred successfully.
I then did a 'quick format' on it and then ran chkdsk with the option to scan for and try to recover bad sectors.
When I now run norton disk doctor on the faulty drive, it now says there are no more bad sectors. I feel kind of bad sending the drive back now if there's no bad sectors on it ! Though I don't fully test the report.
I was just wondering.. can bad sectors be fixed with a full format ?? I'm going to send it back one way or another because I really don't trust it, specially after the clicking noises and beeps it made today when I was trying to recover the data.. but why is it showing no bad sectors anymore ??
