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Subject:
Hard drive failure indications
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Bob Deschamps <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:43:55 -0400
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ScanDisk shows a recently installed 6.5GB HD has ten (10) bad/damaged sectors after less than 120 days of operation (less than 500 hours actual "on" time). The drive has never exceeded 2 Gb of data.  The first two "bad sectors" showed up after 60 days of trouble-free operation. The rest seemed to show up two-at-time every two to three weeks.   My system is a "White Box" Pentium 200 MMX with 64 MB of RAM running WIN95B.  McAfee 4.0 was the second app loaded and has been updated biweekly.
Is this drive (slowly but surely) headed for total failure?
Opinions, ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Bob Deschamps
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