Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP
"Porpoise" <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:30:13 +0100
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"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... >> > > I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you both. I have found from > personal experience that you can take a damaged drive, freshly re-format > it, run chkdsk, and not find anything. Fill it with data, run chkdsk, and > it will locate bad sectors that never existed before. Well that's logical..... you don't have an MFT until you start loading data - it's then that it will determine bad sectors. When you then reformat the drive, you lose that data (the table of bad sectors) [since the sectors only exist in software].