Okay I didn't think this was possible before but I've had a strange problem recently with a Samsung F3 purchased on another forum. The seller had decent feedback and I'm willing to believe them when they say the drive had a clean scan before they sent it.
I installed Windows 7 on the drive and it seemed to be fine straight after the install, everything working nice and quick etc as you'd expect from this drive. Quite soon after the install finished I switched off the PC and left it over night as it was quite late. Turned it on the next day and everything was going extremely slowly (wasn't updating windows or anything at this point, internet connection was disconnected). Restarted the PC and it refused to boot into windows at all.
Tried all the usual stuff then decided to put the drive in another machine to test it. HD tune tells me that pretty much the first few gigs on the drive are all bad sectors?
I wasn't aware that a bad OS install could give you bad sectors, but it seems a bit too much of a coincidence to me? The motherboard is an EVGA 680i if that makes any difference.
Had a look around and I can't see anyone else reporting a similar problem so I think it might just have been bad timing, but I'm not sure.
I installed Windows 7 on the drive and it seemed to be fine straight after the install, everything working nice and quick etc as you'd expect from this drive. Quite soon after the install finished I switched off the PC and left it over night as it was quite late. Turned it on the next day and everything was going extremely slowly (wasn't updating windows or anything at this point, internet connection was disconnected). Restarted the PC and it refused to boot into windows at all.
Tried all the usual stuff then decided to put the drive in another machine to test it. HD tune tells me that pretty much the first few gigs on the drive are all bad sectors?
I wasn't aware that a bad OS install could give you bad sectors, but it seems a bit too much of a coincidence to me? The motherboard is an EVGA 680i if that makes any difference.Had a look around and I can't see anyone else reporting a similar problem so I think it might just have been bad timing, but I'm not sure.
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