anything I can do about Bad sectors on HDD??

[danny889]

I have a 4.3 gig SCSI IBM HDD with bad sectors, is there anything I can do to use it as it would be an awful thing to waste it

[miha76]

Trash is the place for that HD.

But if you only have few bad sectors then live them and continue to use HD.

Bad sectors could be removed (repaired) with some utilityes for surface scaning, and it works good for few days but it appears again on the same place, and you know how big problem is, if on bad sector, you have part of some important file.

I think dumpt the crap and forget about it.

also for SCSI HD is important to have good cooling cous heat is reason why bad sectors appears, usualy.

[This message has been edited by miha76 (edited 05-14-2000).]

[Ceint]

...Don't junk it, send it back to the manufacturer, they should replace it.

[RVT]

Most SCSI's have a 5 year warrantee....
your 4.3 might still be covered.

Gibson Research sells "Spinrite", a drive great recovery tool (I dont know if it is SCSI compatable though.)
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[Viper222]

Bad sectors are physical to the HD. Sometimes bad sectors spread throughout the HD. If this is the case, have the drive replaced by the manufacturer. If you use Windows, the bad sectors will be marked as being bad, and those bad sectors will not be used.

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[danny889]

well, there's 204,800 in bad setors and it seems to be staying at that.
I have a HDD cooler for it so I'm not sure about heat
I'll see how I go

[Luis G]

Sometimes a low-level format will repair those sectors.

once i had that problem, i format the drive with the dos format command (high-level) and work fine (format c: /C, the C parameter it's needed in this case), this is due to bad sectors not always are bad, sometimes happens that the sector loose the control-flow information, and might be marked as bad.

That's a posibilitie, but if you can get the low-level formater for that drive, would be better, if this doesn't solve your problem then the drive it's faulty....