chkdsk won't remove bad clusters Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 5:49 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gordon451 (4 messages posted) G'day all. I have W2K SP4, and use a Western Digital WD800BB-22JHC0 -- 80GB -- as my D: drive. I run chkdsk occasionally, just to make sure, and the other day I discovered a very large amount of bad clusters "being replaced". So I ran chkdsk a second time (the boot-up option). And got exactly the same list of clusters being replaced! Every time I run chkdsk it finishes up a 45-minute task by telling me there are no bad clusters! I should say that all the problems are confined to some Bit-Torrents in one folder. I have Adenix SMART Explorer installed, and it reports 100% reliability -- ie: no problems or errors. I am discounting funny data, as I was told chkdsk performs write-back to all data to see if the results match the original read. So the question is: does, or does not, chkdsk fix files and mark bad clusters? Gordon. Responses to this message: re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (Steve: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 7:07 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (DEX: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (NigelHH: Monday, May 25, 2009 at 1:34 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Friday, May 29, 2009 at 1:45 am) All messages in this thread [show all] chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Wed, May 6, 2009, 5:49 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (Steve: Wed, May 6, 2009, 7:07 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (DEX: Wed, May 6, 2009, 1:29 pm) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Thu, May 7, 2009, 5:29 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (C K: Thu, May 7, 2009, 11:07 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (NigelHH: Mon, May 25, 2009, 1:34 am) re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Fri, May 29, 2009, 1:45 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum