Hello Chris,

Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 1:34:10 AM, you wrote:

CS> A friend gave me a HardDrive that "Crashed", his system(win98, P4 1.6ghz 256mg) was
CS> about 6 months old.  He ran into a mobo problem(not sure what it was), and he assumed
CS> that it caused bad
CS> sectors on the hd(I don't really know). So I said I'd take it and do some research.
CS> I ran Scan Disk/Defrag and found a total of 3 bad sectors. I have always wondered if
CS> there was something out
CS> there that would remove these bad sectors. (figured I'd ask!) It is a 20-GB 5M Ultra ATA
CS> Fujitsu IDE U100 Hard Disk.  Is there any way to save this poor drive.(I would like to
CS> use it as a back  up).

I have the same problems with my old Fujitsu 20GB (8 month on
garanty). Malfunction I saw by "S.M.A.R.T. Disk Monitor" from SunTools (about 200
parameters to control). Another utility from Fujitsu: "fjdtdiags_5.00"
shows an ERROR during Comprehensive Test.  Then, I repear this drive from customer and
install Win98. After several days 7 BAD claster appears on the new drive after
installing some old games. So I FDISK and format this drive and all
BAD sectors disappear!


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Best regards,
 Yakymakha

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