kartel Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 (edited) I had some start-up issues today and I ran chkdsk and there are bad sectors now.I have the drive split in 3 partitions.Would the bad sectors go away after a format on that partition or are they there to stay?I checked the other partitions and they are ok.What do you figure, toast? Would overclocking my videocard with ati tool do this? Edited December 1, 2006 by kartel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqie Fox Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 overclocking a vidcard would not do that, but overclocking anything else could. Your bad sectors are here to stay until you do a "write zeros to drive". the easiest way to do that is with a free utility called DBAN. Please be aware that a write zeros erases *EVERYTHING* on the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kartel Posted December 1, 2006 Author Share Posted December 1, 2006 Ya I did that before I installed Vista.I guess the drive is on its way out.I had some suspicion from this when I first brought it home, used.I used pc wizzard to show the smart info and it has some bad errors.I have 3 of the same drives, the best one has 98se and 4 other partions of "everything" that I refuse to give up on, yet.Drive 1Drive 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Check the drive with a low-level diagnostic program like MHDD.http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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