On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Guy Steven wrote: > My hard drive is about to die. I am encountering bad clusters on a partition > used for windows. The windows scan disk gives up when it reaches a certain > point through the surface scan.
For some years now the disks had spare hidden blocks to transparently swap with the bad blocks inevitably encountered on disks. If you see bad blocks it means that the hidden "supply" has been exhausted. If you value your data and time to restore the system at anything more than ~200$ then replace it ASAP If you don't value it then why bother ? ;-) It may die on you at any time anyway. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
