Bad Hard Drive

[asiafish]

Wow, after using my T42p (GVU) for a month, I ran CHKDSK and it reported back that I had over 8000 bad clusters. I ran the utility after some file copies had failed due to "Cyclic Redundancy Error".

So I restored my system to factory settings (after a full backup) and ran CHKDSK again, and sure enough, same 8000+ bad clusters.

IBM is sending me a new drive, but what a PITA.

[RonS]

Open a command shell and type in
CHKDSK /F

Without the /F any corrections will not be written to disk. After doing this, re-boot your computer.

During the reboot, CHKDSK will be run before Windows starts. After that, your problems should be gone.

[asiafish]

No, after doing that the clusters are just mapped and Windows will avoid them. This is a brand new computer with a brand new drive, I will not settle for bad clusters even if Windows can be trained to ignore them.

[emorphien]

I think you should get it replaced too. There's no reason to stand for that on a new drive. Hell even if a drive is under warranty and it starts getting errors or warnings on monitor programs I may RMA it (Most definitely if errors, SMART can be wrong).

[MadeInJapan]

For your replacement, I hope you don't get a refurbished drive, but often that's what they are.

[emorphien]

For your replacement, I hope you don't get a refurbished drive, but often that's what they are.

I would call them and demand a new drive since you've had this brand new computer less than xx days. Whatever the return period is I suppose.

err now that I look you say you've had it for a month, might be tricky. Still worth a shot, thats giving errors way too soon.

[asiafish]

Its not a problem, I insisted on a new drive and that is what I was promised. If a refurb comes, I'll send it right back and demand NEW.