Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP
Borgholio <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:43:55 -0800
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Joe Gill wrote: > "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. > > > Even with the /F or /R option on clean disk? still coming up blank ("not > find anything") > > Yep. It only finds bad sectors if there's data there.