« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2018, 10:55:48 PM »
Accumulation of Bad Sectors
• Bad sectors are areas of the hard drive that do not maintain data integrity.
• They are automatically masked by the operating system and thus hard to identify, especially if large amounts of the disk are currently in use.
• If you actually run into bad sectors, however, that certainly is a bad sign.
• You can run a manual disk check to identify errors that Windows has not spotted, yet.
• In Windows 7, go to > Start > Computer and right-click on the disk or partition you wish to check. Select > Properties, in the window that opens switch to the > Tools tab and click > Check now… In the Checking Disk window place a checkmark next to > Automatically fix file system errors and > Scan for an attempt recovery of bad sectors.
• Windows will also check for bad sectors, when you perform a full format or chkdsk command.
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