does anyone have a harddrive with bad sectors that haven't increased in size. if so how many megs of bad sectors and how big is your harddrive. thanks

What is up with this question anyway?? It has been asked and answered at LEAST 12 times in the last two days. Enough already

Enough already. Yes, you can have bad sectors. Even a drive that doesn't show bad sectors probably has some. When they do the initial format of a drive the factory, they map them out so they don't show. There are recoverable bad sector and unrecoverable ones. Unrecoverable ones are usually caused by physical defects. Recoverable ones are usually caused by a bad write and may be recovered by a "good" low level format. Whether or not the amount changes depends upon luck. I've seen a hard drive have so many bad reads that SMART shut it down in two days. I also have a drive that had lost 50% capacity because of a bad head. It still runs, 10MB of a 20MB MFM hard drive. Only advice. Eventually a hard drive will fail. Tomorrow to 500,000 hours. If you do get some bad sectors, it is time to plan to replace the drive or backup as often as critical data changes. The problem with big drives is that you have all you eggs in one basket. And since most people don't partition their drives it makes total loss more likely. End of Bad Sectors, hopefully.