It’s become an interesting subject because since posting here this morning I’ve crashed around the Internet and found some most interesting articles. One such article suggests that a lot of the time perfectly good drives are biffed out needlessly. An example is that if the power is cut to the computer whilst the HDD is writing you can easily wind up with a bad sector because the write to that sector isn’t finalised. Such a sector can be easily recovered using the correct programme. Or so the writer claimed.

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Now I know of a chap who used his computer to check only one particular website and he simply turned his computer on and off at the wall. Ok, he’s 70+ and didn’t know any different. As you can imagine, his system was a shambles.

Anyway, I’ve got an experiment underway with a supposedly stuffed drive so I’ll let you know. An example is that if the power is cut to the computer whilst the HDD is writing you can easily wind up with a bad sector because the write to that sector isn’t finalised.Someone did this yesterday, when I was fixing 1 laptop, while I was updating another laptop. I connected the stuffed hdd to this (it wouldnt boot, the hdd on it was a SATA). The screen (that checks for errors came up), and found some errors and fixed them. I took the hdd off this, put it back in the laptop, rebooted it, it was fine booted into windows While I was updating the other laptop, I told the daughter to connect it to the power, (the one that had the stuffed hdd), since the battery was going flat. Whats she do, she pulls the plug out (of the wall), while I was updating the other laptop (it was already connected) to power Thats probably how the stuffed hdd stuffed up in the first place.

One such article suggests that a lot of the time perfectly good drives are biffed out needlessly That is true - Didn't feel like writing more before - If I have a customers Drive and I run HDD Regen through it and it find 1 or 2, I advice the customer of whats was found, some say dont worry and will take the chance it wont fail (and it doesn't) - Others say replace the drive. If the drive had MANY bad sectors thats usually a good indication of a pending failure - one of my own Workshop/Play PC's I had a suspect drive in, just for mucking about, ran HDD Reg - found several, HDD regen was meant to fix it - about 1-2 Months later RASSSPPPPP the drive ended up in the Bin. Quoted from Chills Link. Fascinating stuff this. Does anybody know of a programme to reset the Bad Sector Table and retest the sector again? An interesting point I found in my Internet research was that most Cloning Programmes transfer the data bit for bit so when you install a nice new HDD you get the old Bad Sector Table as a bonus.

Therefore your new drive starts with a list of bad sectors before it adds a few of its own. Now, I read where one way around this is to change the sizes of the partitions on the new drive, which apparently fools the Cloning Programme into thinking the Bad Sector Tables are redundant and resets them. Hmmm, a hell of a messy the way I see it. I also note that chkdsk /b used to reset and retest the sector to confirm if it was still faulty, but apparently doesn’t anymore. Anyone confirm or deny this? Just as well the subject interests me or this Laptop would be sent packing.