Bad sectors in Storage device
I have a friend that has a 3-4 month old Inspiron 9100. It's top of the line, 512 RAM, 3.4 processor, 256 mb radeon graph card, 100 gb storage. She started having problems with a few programs, wireless internet stopped working, somebody told her to run an error check on the c and it came up with errors. I ran chkdsk and it said 4 kb of bad sectors. She talked to dell and they're already sending her a new harddrive. What does this mean? 4kb of bad sectors? Is it a hardware thing or could it have been fixed by reformatting? Thanks.
Re: Bad sectors in Storage device
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Originally posted here by dantesheaven
I have a friend that has a 3-4 month old Inspiron 9100. It's top of the line, 512 RAM, 3.4 processor, 256 mb radeon graph card, 100 gb storage. She started having problems with a few programs, wireless internet stopped working, somebody told her to run an error check on the c and it came up with errors. I ran chkdsk and it said 4 kb of bad sectors. She talked to dell and they're already sending her a new harddrive. What does this mean? 4kb of bad sectors? Is it a hardware thing or could it have been fixed by reformatting? Thanks.
Inspiron 9100 its really a cool Laptop to have :cool: . Regarding the problem why worrying when they are giving a new Harddisk. Anyways Bad sectors are hardware failures may be due to power failure and some other reason. Further you can read from the following link.
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...ght=bad+sector