jdulmage 0 Posted July 20, 2002 For me, only on old drives (like 40 MB ones) or floppy disks. But it's funny to see it THAT badly hurt. Share this post Link to post
Admiral LSD 0 Posted July 20, 2002 Actually, I had a 20Mb drive that did something like that. The problem only became obvious when the drive was cold so I would pull it out and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours before running ScanDisk on it. Unfortunately later down the track I played around with fdisk wiping them all out. I tried to scan them again but in the end I just gave up, getting a better computer instead. Share this post Link to post
Uykucu 0 Posted July 20, 2002 Had something similar with a 6.4 drive other week. Had about 500 bad clusters And they wanted data recovery Share this post Link to post
JP- 0 Posted July 20, 2002 Ive had that on 3 different Maxtor drives, 2 6.4GB and 1 8GB. More and more bad clusters just kept appearing so they got RMAd. The 4th replacement is still working though atm, after about 2 years, but no maxtor drive is going near my pc again Share this post Link to post
Uykucu 0 Posted July 20, 2002 Yes low level formatting can help sometimes, but it can't help you recovering the data Otherwise i just don't bother with them. a single bad cluster will mean a nice shortcut to the Bin or Distributor for the drive. M4Carbine, an experience is better than 1000 warnings Share this post Link to post
ewaite 0 Posted July 20, 2002 I'm a big fan of SprinRite from Steve Gibson (the guy behind ShieldsUp security scan and countless security articles). Only problem is it doesn't work on NTFS. Check it out at http://grc.com/spinrite.htm. The Data Recovery features in SpinRite (see http://grc.com/srrecovery.htm) have saved me countless times. And before anyone asks, No I don't work for Gibson Research, just a big fan of Steve's software Share this post Link to post
