SEAGATE SATAHD going BAD

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I have a pair of seagate 80G SATA drives as RAID-0. I have been getting
drive errors the past few weeks. I have used CHKDSK/f from XP during
boot to scan and repair the drives. My question is, does CHKDSK/f,
during the process mark the bad sectors so the drive will not attempt to
re-use them?

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration

Mike H.

 

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Previously M.H. <mhagerty@charter.net> wrote:
> I have a pair of seagate 80G SATA drives as RAID-0. I have been getting
> drive errors the past few weeks. I have used CHKDSK/f from XP during
> boot to scan and repair the drives. My question is, does CHKDSK/f,
> during the process mark the bad sectors so the drive will not attempt to
> re-use them?

These drives will reallocate the defect sectors on any write or succesful
read unless they have already so many bad sectors that they are dying
anyways.

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Do the drives have adequate cooling? even some light air-flow over them is
decent.

"M.H." <mhagerty@charter.net> wrote in message
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>I have a pair of seagate 80G SATA drives as RAID-0. I have been getting
>drive errors the past few weeks. I have used CHKDSK/f from XP during boot
>to scan and repair the drives. My question is, does CHKDSK/f, during the
>process mark the bad sectors so the drive will not attempt to re-use them?
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and consideration
>
> Mike H.