re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11846 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here Don't forget this is not win98se ,it's winw2k with nt the norm.. ============ Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 5:49 am, gordon451 wrote: >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. Written in response to: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 5:49 am) Responses to this message: re: chkdsk won't remove bad clusters (gordon451: Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 5:29 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