That means that your hard drive is getting ready to quit on you.  If
scandisk can't fix the bad sectors, defrag will put your files on
non-damaged parts of the drive.  Eventually you're going to start having
corrupted files and lost data.  Best to back up your files now and budget
for a new hard drive.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodgers Family" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:58 AM
Subject: bad sectors


> I hope this isn't a dumb question but I was wondering if anyone could tell
> be what it means when scan disk says
> you have bad sectors? And is there anyway to fix these bad sectors? I run
> scan disk and defragmenter every week and it shows 16,384 bad sectors . I
> have
> a Compaq w/windows me.
> thanks,
> Dawn Rodgers,
>
>
>
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