Looks like your friend is caught in between. The system manufacturer made a deal with the parts suppliers to warranty the system for one year, apparently in place of a manufacturer's warranty that would come with most hard drives.  WD, Maxtor, IBM, and other major drive suppliers give a 3 year warranty.  You should try to reformat and start over.  If that doesn't fix the problem, your should think about telling your friend to be prepared to drop $50-$60 on a name brand 20 gig hard drive.  Getting the old one looked at and/or fixed will cost much more than getting a new drive with a 3-year warranty.  I believe that you can get 20 gig, 5400  rpm drives from major makers at about $50 online.

>My friend has a 16 month old Pc with a Fujitsu hdd in it its a 20gb.
>
>Everytime windows starts up it runs scandisk and claims there are bad
>sectors in the disk, Windows will start and run but the scan disk errors
>always comes up at startup.
>
>
>Ive contacted the Pc supplier they only give a one yeat warrinrity on the
>whole system
>
>I have also contacted Fuji as the drive is only just over a year Man date of
>05-2001, They are saying go back to the Pc supplier to get this issue
>sorted.
>
>Can anyone help in in where can I process this drive under warrinity??
>
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