re: bad sectors Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 11:02 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) A small number of sectors bad is not a real big problem (unless the drive is new). Sometimes things like losing power when something is being written to the disk drive can cause error like this. If SCANDISK can not fix the errors (try running it again), then no, Formatting will not fix it. An 80GB drive showing as 37GB sounds more like a partition size problem. Open a DOS window and run CHKDSK command and see what size it shows. Then run FDISK and see what partition size it shows, and if the drive has more than one partition. You might want to run the disk drive manufacture Quality Check program on the drive and see what it reports. See: page for links. Written in response to: bad sectors (teresa: Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 10:21 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] bad sectors (teresa: Sat, Feb 26, 2005, 10:21 pm) re: bad sectors (Jack Gulley: Sat, Feb 26, 2005, 11:02 pm) re: bad sectors (Fed-up: Wed, Mar 2, 2005, 10:51 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 Me Discussion Forum