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How To Check Bad Sectors

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Name: RanmaP
Date: September 22, 2003 at 11:26:07 Pacific
OS: Windows 2000
CPU/Ram: 1Ghz 512MB
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Hey guys/girls,

I was wondering how would I check to see if there are any bad sectors on hard drives in Windows 2000?

I know it has a Check Disk utility under TOOLs but that doesn't display a popup like the one in Windows 98.

Plus, if your scanning the drive with the OS you'll have to restart.

Does the Check Disk gererate a log? That shows bad sectors?

I also notice in Disk Management it would say Healthy if a disk is good, but warns you if a disk is bad or if it find it missing (e.g. if you had a raid and one of the drives were missing).

But that doesn't tell you how many are bad sectors either.




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Name: stevesemm
Date: September 22, 2003 at 11:46:46 Pacific
Reply:

Not too sure how robust the disk utilities are with a standard 2000 install because have always used 3rd party software such as disk keeper. You may need to invest in one of these programs.


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Name: RanmaP
Date: September 22, 2003 at 12:41:28 Pacific
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Diskeeper is for defrag only, correct me if I'm wrong.

That's okay, I got it.

I used CHKDSK in command prompt to give me the info I need.

Thanks
Phil


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Response Number 3
Name: stevesemm
Date: September 22, 2003 at 12:57:07 Pacific
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No. you are right, I was reading "bad sectors" hearing "defrag", sorry.


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Response Number 4
Name: jrIStech
Date: September 22, 2003 at 13:41:50 Pacific
Reply:

download a software called SpinRite 5.0


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Response Number 5
Name: RanmaP
Date: September 23, 2003 at 09:50:29 Pacific
Reply:

jrIStech,

I forgot to mention that these hard drives are NTFS formatted.

SpinRite 5.0
In RED on thier website and I quote: " SpinRite 5.0 is not NTFS Compatible"

Thanks


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