• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Windows 2000 - check disk parameter

W

wpshooter

Golden Member
When doing a check disk in the Windows 2000 operating system, should you mark/check the parameter that is entitled "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" ? What does this parameter mean/do exactly ?

Is this saying that if there are sectors on the drive that are already marked as bad and it can successfully repair these sectors to do this ? Would this be a GOOD idea ? If these sectors were marked as bad, would there probably not be a very good and legitimate reason why they were marked as bad in the first place. Would you not be tempting fate by allowing these sectors to come back into use ?

Thanks.
 
Actually, I was also wondering if thats what it might mean. But is it possible that that also may lead to more problems than it might solve ?

Thanks.

 
It will not cause any more problems than would already exist. If you have data on a bad spot, whatever file that data is part of might be corrupt. Running the recovery option will try and read that data and potentially save file corruption.
 
It'll make it take a lot longer as it has to write a pattern to each sector and verify it reads back ok, a normal chkdsk will just look over the NTFS data format. And usually by the time you see the bad sectors the disk is on it's way out anyway since the disk itself will relocate a certain number of bad sectors on it's own.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top