Re: WDC cavier - bad sectors


"hugh pearce" <hughxxxremovexxxxwpearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> XP ran chkdsk on my Western Digital 250GB SATA drive on boot and reported
> some bad sectors (4?).
> I have downloaded the WD lifeguard diagnostic program and this to reports
> bad sectors too and gives option to repair them.
>
> Question is can I return this as faulty to WD as its waranted till 2007
>
> Also is it advisable to do repair and see how drive fares, will this
affect
> its warantee
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> Hugh
>
>
Thanks for replies
I decided to run the DOS version of lifeguard diagnostics as this the one
run to get the fault codes for the RMA. However it passed all tests. I
suspect reading the WD site info reporting bad sectors using the Windows
version of Lifeguard can be caused by other factors other than physical
damage to the platters. So I may run the Windows Lifeguard version again
and see what it says on a second run.

After chkdsk ran originally if did (or windows) automatically a load of
repair/remapping? type stuff to various files etc

Hugh


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