Bad Sectors

[NotAGolf]

I think I have a problem with bad sectors on a disk. I tried partitioning the disk a few hours ago but that failed due to "errors with disk". I ran chkdsk /f, after that it allowed me to partition ok but after booting into linux it's still telling me I have bad sectors.

Would running chkdsk /f /r do any good?

I don't think this is the first time this has happened either so would this point to a slowly dying hard drive?

It's a 4 year old 160GB Samsung Spinpoint btw

Cheers

 

[NotAGolf]

Sorry for the long delay.

I got the disk utility from samsung and ran it with no problems, i've run shkdsk a couple of times with no errors. Either linux is super precise or it's having me on!

I've backed everything up just in case but I'm going to stick with this for a little while longer.


Manoz; I used a tool called Hutil. You can find it here on Samsung's website. You just have to burn it to cd or floppy and run it from startup.

I don't know what drive you have but that utility covers loads of them. There's instructions on how to use it at the bottom of that page.

Cheers!