bad sectors

Kylee · #1 April 10th, 2002, 02:46 AM

The story is ive just got a new 40GB harddrive - about 1 month ago.

And this morning i booted up my computer and it came up with scandisk saying i possibly had bad sectors on my drive..... and sure enuf i now have a bad sector on my new harddrive - which to me is a bit of a worry because its pretty much close to the start of the drive. I would partition that off, but its surrounded by other data!

Its a new drive, and to me, shouldn't have any bad sectors on it!
Any advice?

**zipulrich** · #2 April 10th, 2002, 03:48 AM

How about make and model, as well as OS

Kylee · #3 April 10th, 2002, 04:42 AM

Sorry!!

(im new) Generic Comp, GenuineIntel, 98SE, 64MB ram, 40GB harddrive (Seagate) - The harddrive is only a month old, i also have my old harddrive as a slave, its 1.58GB hence the fact i needed a new harddrive!!!

**zipulrich** · #4 April 10th, 2002, 05:28 AM

Unless someone else comes along with different advice, I'd take it back as defective.

Kylee · #5 April 10th, 2002, 06:13 AM

Thanks - that seems to be the same response ive got from everyone else! Damned computers!!!!!

**zipulrich** · #6 April 10th, 2002, 06:39 AM

Seagate drives are usually pretty good. But turning to toast in a month? No way......

Kylee · #7 April 10th, 2002, 07:45 AM

Well thats what i thought as well. Also, ive partitioned it, and one of the partitions wont defrag becoz it has an error: ID NO: Defrag00203. Ive tried searching for this error but with no luck - there only seems to be info on error defrag00205. So i dont know watsup with the whole thing!! Maybe its just a good idea to get rid of it!?