Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

Porpoise wrote:
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> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>> 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.
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> 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].

Yep.  But the old Scandisk could check the empty sectors 
anyways...Chkdsk doesn't.