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    Question for HDD knowledge bad sector

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DARCODER, May 13, 2011.

  1. DARCODER

    DARCODER Notebook Deity

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    So, after cloning my HDD to my MomentusXT ( Happy that I do that for many reasons), my momentusXT has lots of bad sector, because when i was using it 3 days ago, system has some freeze. So i say myself lets repear it with HDD regenerator but... Now three days ( like 29hours of regenerating I think..) and my software has recovered only 60Gb in 29hours.
    Is that normal or i got too much Bad sector? the HDD was new for 2weeks.
    Thanks for any information^^
     
    DARCODER, May 13, 2011
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  2. Tapakidney

    Tapakidney Notebook Evangelist

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    Bad sectors already??? No, not normal. Return that piece of crap.
     
    Tapakidney, May 13, 2011
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  3. Azureal

    Azureal Notebook Consultant

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    I agree with Tapakidney, it sounds like you have a bad drive, hopefully you are able to return it to your vendor and get a replacement right away.

    Your experience is not normal or typical.
     
    Azureal, May 14, 2011
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  4. ECKS

    ECKS Notebook Prophet

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    This is funny, cuz the replacement I received, which I sent back a few days ago, had bad sectors on the hdd. When it booted to windows, windows kept popping up windows saying bad sector blah blah blah, and when I closed that window a new window would pop up saying bad sector blah blah blah. Lots of windows about windows, lolz.

    That computer was totally bad, as you can see. I'm so glad I sent it back.
     
    ECKS, May 15, 2011
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