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NTFS checking for bad blocks
Name: Don Date: January 10, 2001 at 08:35:16 Pacific
Comment:
In the old Dos environment, when you ran scandisk and allowed it to perform a surface scan it would point out the bad blocks that are on the hard drive. I am looking for a utility that will give me a picture format similiar to this to determine if I have only one bad block of hundreds of them. I would then be able to me a better determination whether I should replace the hard drive.
Name: Bob Date: January 10, 2001 at 11:56:53 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried check disk(chkdsk.exe) I beleive just chkdsk will do a read only scan, if you use a /f it should fix any errors it can. Im not sure it will give you a bad block list. Hope this helps Bob
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Response Number 2
Name: James Date: January 11, 2001 at 14:01:59 Pacific
Reply:
DO NOT use scandisk from DOS on an NT workstation to repair the drive!! This could be a very bad thing! In my experience, if you get ANY bad blocks on NT, REPLACE THE DRIVE NOW or risk losing everything.
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