Almost all IDE HD have bad sectors that are masked during factory certification. If you run the factory low-level software it identifies these bad sectors and masks them so the drive looks new again. I do know that the Fujitsu 20GB drives have a reliability problem as our company has had them replaced in Compaq computers this year. If I were you I'd get it replaced under their 3 year warranty and start out with a new one.
  Chris Simants <[log in to unmask]> wrote: A friend gave me a HardDrive that "Crashed", his system(win98, P4 1.6ghz 256mg) was about 6 months old. He ran into a mobo problem(not sure what it was), and he assumed that it caused bad sectors on the hd(I don't really know). So I said I'd take it and do some research. I ran Scan Disk/Defrag and found a total of 3 bad sectors. I have always wondered if there was something out there that would remove these bad sectors. (figured I'd ask!) It is a 20-GB 5M Ultra ATA Fujitsu IDE U100 Hard Disk. Is there any way to save this poor drive.(I would like to use it as a back up).

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