Goddam Seagate Harddisk has bad sectors

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The discussion centers on a Seagate Barracuda 60GB hard disk exhibiting bad sectors after three months of use. The user experienced system crashes and identified 8MB of bad sectors using FDISK and scandisk. Recommendations include reformatting the drive to NTFS for improved stability and utilizing Seagate's diagnostic tools, such as SeaTools, for potential repairs. The user also noted the importance of warranty claims, although they lost their receipt, complicating the process.

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Seagate Harddisk has bad sectors

I bought it 3 months ago, 60GB barracuda HDD, 7200RPM.
I installed Windows XP, yesterday it suddenly hanged and dumped memory and blue screen appeared.
I reset computer and boot into XP again, but failed.

I set it to be slave and connected it to another HDD, copied my files into the primary HDD.
After that I use a Win98 bootdisk to restart, and use FDISK to delete and create partition, reboot and
reformat it in FAT32, scandisk it and discovered that there is total 8MB bad sectors in it, scattered everywhere .

Why so bad?
If I format it again to NTFS, can i repair the bad sectors?
 
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Hmm, Interesting name.

Uhm, if you reformat your drive, it should take care of it completely. If your not using NTFS, you should use it. More then likely formating your drive will wipe out your current OS, but reinstalling isn't to bad.

But seems you should be able to run a Disk defrag within windows, which is under your Accesories Folder in System Tools. I'd try this first, then reformatting.

But seems NTFS is much better, stable, etc.
 
If it is only 3 months old, it is prolly within it's warranty period. Just send it back and stay on the safe side...if you are seeing physical errors on the drive now, things will not get better, they'll get worse.
 
i lost the receipt, can't claim warranty anymore.:frown:
 
At our company, when we find a bad Western Digital drive, we just put the serial number in on western digital's website and wait for the replacement.

Perhaps the same can be done with seagate?
 
here is malaysia, not so gentleman, sad.:frown:
 
discovered that there is total 8MB bad sectors in it, scattered everywhere .
Why so bad?
If I format it again to NTFS, can i repair the bad sectors?

of course you can, if u use the right soft!
check this out:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone16/cat288/28658.htm
check the reviews!
 
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