All 3-d party utilities show that the drive is healthy.
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Replace the drive!
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> Regards,
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> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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> "Dmitry Kopnichev" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
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>> Hello
>> Chkdsk shows that my disk contains 109978316 KB in bad sectors:
>> The type of the file system is NTFS.
>> Volume label is DSK3_VOL1.
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>> WARNING! F parameter not specified.
>> Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
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>> CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
>> File verification completed.
>> CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
>> Index verification completed.
>> CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
>> CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
>> Security descriptor verification completed.
>> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
>> master file table (MFT) bitmap.
>> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
>> Windows found problems with the file system.
>> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
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>> 244196000 KB total disk space.
>> 41790852 KB in 34737 files.
>> 11192 KB in 2684 indexes.
>> 109978316 KB in bad sectors.
>> 69132 KB in use by the system.
>> 23104 KB occupied by the log file.
>> 92346508 KB available on disk.
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>> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
>> 61049000 total allocation units on disk.
>> 23086627 allocation units available on disk.
>> But MHDD shows that my disk does not contain bad blocks at all.
>> How to recover the free space?
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