re: bad sectors
Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
A small number of sectors bad is not a real big problem (unless the drive is new).
Sometimes things like losing power when something is being written to the disk drive
can cause error like this. If SCANDISK can not fix the errors (try running it again),
then no, Formatting will not fix it.
An 80GB drive showing as 37GB sounds more like a partition size problem. Open
a DOS window and run CHKDSK command and see what size it shows. Then run FDISK
and see what partition size it shows, and if the drive has more than one partition.
You might want to run the disk drive manufacture Quality Check program on the
drive and see what it reports. See:  page for links.
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re: bad sectors
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 10:51 am
Posted by Fed-up
(219 messages posted)
Jack is almost certainly right. However, after you follow Jack's advice, IF you
still find you have enough bad sectors to reduce your available space to only 37G
out of an 80G hard drive, DON'T PUT ANY VALUABLE DATA ON THAT DRIVE!
Return that thing, FAST! It's got major problems!
Mostly likely it got partitioned incorrectly. It's no big deal to correct
that.
On Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 10:21 pm, teresa wrote:
>i did a scandisk and it reported some bad sectors can this be fixed by reformatting
>if not how can this be fixed it is a fairly new computer with 80gb but it is only
>showing 37gb is this fixable
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