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  1. November 3rd, 2004, 03:44 PM #1
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    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.
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  2. February 14th, 2007, 07:37 AM #2
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    Formatting alone won't cure bad sectors. By running scandisk you tag the bad sectors and the OS should be smart enough to not use them.

    The concern probably is that if the device is that new and had no trauma then the number of bad sectors will continue to grow between scandisks and thus make it harder for the OS.

    Getting the mfr to replace the drive is a good thing.


    I shouldn't have posted, when I searched new posts the original post came up and I missed the date.
    Last edited by fourdc; February 14th, 2007 at 07:40 AM. Reason: apologizing for posting
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  3. February 14th, 2007, 10:23 AM #3
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    Hi, The inspiron 9100 does have a reputation for frying things, 4 HDDs in 2 years does seem a bit excessive though. Make sure that all ventilation ports and fans are clean and the fans are running properly. Depending on how you mainly use the machine it might be worth investing in a cooling pad.
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  4. February 20th, 2007, 11:22 PM #4
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    I have the same problems with my hard disk and I found something at Fix hdd bad sectors Good luck I hope you will resolve your problem.
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  6. February 22nd, 2007, 05:33 PM #5
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    I would lean towards a flaky powersupply myself...or dose she kick box around a lot ?
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  7. February 22nd, 2007, 05:56 PM #6
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    Hi bballad, I did think about the PSU myself, but we are talking 4 units in 2~2.5 years here. In my experience a bad PSU will kill things a lot more regularly than that and should itself have died in that time frame?
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