Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> anon wrote:
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>> Question - I thought that when the disk was formatted that 'something' 
>> was written to all the sectors during the formatting procedure - 
>> therefore there IS something to 'check'. Why would one have to write 
>> something now in order for chkdsk to 'find' the bad sectors?
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> Beats me...yet that's what seems to happen.

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There was a later post that explained what was 'put' on the hdd when 
formatted  vs. 'data' which is checked by scandisk.

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