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Beeblequix
06-20-2002, 10:19 AM
I've had my new 40 GB 60GXP hard drive for about three months and just yesterday when my wife went to use the computer it scandisked (forever) and found a bad 32KB cluster. Argh. I've never had a problem with a hard drive of my own until yesterday. I called the sys integrator I buy my computers from and inquired about this problem. First, I have to say that they're replacing the drive, so I'm glad I have their 3 year warrantee. Anyway, the guy told me that I'm the 3rd or 4th person who has had this problem in the past 6 months, but went on to explain that Windows XP is less forgiving than 98 or other non-NT OSes, that when it finds a bad sector it's screaming bloody murder until it gets attention. He said that all hard drives have bad sectors on them, but 98 and other M$ OSes just wouldn't report them. I just want to know if what he says is true. I always suspect comments like his because I ran scandisk on a regular basis on my old 98 machine and never even came across (1) bad cluster in the 2 years I owned it. Anyone?
sincerely,
Beeble Quix
Nick CPU
06-20-2002, 10:26 AM
I dont know if I buy that comment about scandisk and Win XP and Win 98. I once got like 5 bad clusters from excesive system shut-downs without the proper procedure. I guess maybe IBM had a problem with that drive.
Midknyte
06-20-2002, 02:55 PM
XP with NTFS is actually better equipped to handle the bad sector, but the drive still needed to be replaced. True, Win9x doesn't really do anything when it sees a bad sector, but not all drives have bad sectors. I'm not sure what the sales guy was talking about. Bad sectors are physical defects on the drive. how could we get anything to run if they all have bad sectors?.

It sounds like a bad batch of drives to me.
Kurylo
06-20-2002, 06:09 PM
40GB 60GXP ??? Man you're not lucky don't believe IBM !
I had 4.5MB (MB !!!) of bad clusters one day in a 40GB 60GXP until I replaced with Seagate and am happy as an elephant :D.
bassman
06-20-2002, 10:20 PM
If you're concerned about your drive's health download the IBM drive fitness test (http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm) and check it out :)