Re: bad sectors

From: Sam Goldwasser (sam_at_saul.cis.upenn.edu)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: 24 Feb 2005 16:50:59 -0500

"robert" <robertgatt2004@hotmail.com> writes:

> A friend brought in his old toshiba laptop(satalite 4090) which had a
> harddrive with lots of bad sectors. The laptop is a mess with mising panels
> and he has rigged upa power supply directly to the battery terminals, the
> power cord snaking in through a gap in the case.
>
> I got him a cheap 1G hard drive from ebay that worked fine. 4 months later
> he is back with 20 or more bad clusters scatterd right across the hard
> drive.
>
> Could this just be bad luck or could hardware problems on the laptop
> (voltage spikes?) have caused this? I don't want him to put in another
> harddrive for this to happen again in a couple of months.

Why not buy him a cheap laptop on eBay instead and put this thing out of
its misery. :)

Sure, power spikes are possible to kill sectors. Nothing wrong with the
drive if the sectors are mapped out.

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