Badsectors are funny things. I've got a Maxtor drive, currently in my game box, with almost a Meg of bad sectors. It has worked reliably for more than 2 years with this condition (It's almost 4 years old). I have reformatted and reinstalled serveral times with no problems. I have a friend who had a WD drive with 200K in bad sectors. The day after he discovered this, it went completely south. We have no idea how long it had this condition previously, but the drive was only a year old. He was just doing a routine scandisk. Since we had used some "creative" (oops!) ways of trying to fix it, the warranty was gone. We took the cover off, and put it on a shelf in his room. It makes a nice decoration.
-KEiTH
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Well, I'm off to go look for myself. If I should get back before I return, tell myself to wait for me.
[This message has been edited by theENiGMA (edited 08-12-2000).]
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