I just had a problem with some bad clusters on my HD which caused copy reads to fail. Running chkdsk fixed them.
BUT what is the point of SMART if it doesn't automatically fix these bad sectors so that OS (Windows 7) and hard drive skips around them? I thought SMART was supposed to take care of that.
It may be the files were corrupted so copy failed but chkdsk found and repaired bad clusters so SMART wasn't/isn't doing that.
Maybe my expectation of what SMART does is too high but I don't see what is the point if it doesn't fix the problem. Windows 7 doesn't auto alert me of a problem so it seems it just collects data about stuff and keeps quiet about it.
What's going on?
Thanks
BUT what is the point of SMART if it doesn't automatically fix these bad sectors so that OS (Windows 7) and hard drive skips around them? I thought SMART was supposed to take care of that.
It may be the files were corrupted so copy failed but chkdsk found and repaired bad clusters so SMART wasn't/isn't doing that.
Maybe my expectation of what SMART does is too high but I don't see what is the point if it doesn't fix the problem. Windows 7 doesn't auto alert me of a problem so it seems it just collects data about stuff and keeps quiet about it.
What's going on?
Thanks