UPDATE - Dimension 8200 Hard Drive Problem

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Scandisk certainly won't tell you all the dirt about a drive. Depending on how
the manufacturer's diagnostic is written, it may or may not via a surface scan
which scans only the "current" surface excluding the bad sectors previously
reallocated. Often the diagnostic produces a report which reads out the list of
reallocated sectors, no matter when they were reallocated... Ben Myers

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:50:34 -0400, "Tom D." <delo724@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I took everyone's advice and started backing up my data to DVD in
>preparation for imminent failure.
>I ran the Maxtor diagnostic software and it showed a SMART attribute
>failure. I then DL'd a program called SIGuardian which listed the attributes
>and their values. The value for Reallocated Sector Count was in the failing
>range. Evidently there was data in bad sectors that had been moved. I was
>surprised to read that a surface scan would not show this since the
>reallocation portion of the drive is invisible to surface scanning software.
>Learn something new every day !
>Also found out a whole bunch of other neat stuff about the drive. Presently
>running at 98 degrees, has 4093 hours of run time on it, has realocated 1988
>sectors, etc. Cool program - wish I had a crack for it - expires in 30 days.
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>Thanks again for the help - maybe this will help someone else in the same
>situation.
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