my hard disk shows bad sectors of 16kb in the C drive.what should i do.I still have the replacement warranty?

Answer 1

Normally, all HDD's have bad sectors brand new and there is no feasible way to prevent it. I remember when manufacturers used to put a label on the HDD which showed the number of bad sectors. 16 KB is not bad at all. In fact, it is less than a 2 page document in MS Word.

What you occassionally want to do, say once a month, is run "chkdsk" on the drive. I am from the old school and do it from a dos window. It will identify and mark the bad sectors and skips them when writing data.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Computers tend to generate bad sectors as time goes on. It really depends on the amount of use and abuse that it gets when determining how quickly this happens.

Another factor to consider is that 16kb is not much if your hard drive is measured in the Gb. 16kb is the size of a small picture, or a small program. It will probably not effect the speed of your computer at all. What is recommended is running scandisk and fdisk. Sometimes those programs can either fix or give other suggestions.

Finally how old is the computer if it is only a few months old you might think about returning it. But if it has been in use for 9 or more months this could be considered normal use.

Bad sectors are usually the result of damage to the hard disk from things like moving the computer, and even electrical/static-like incidences can cause bad sectors. They do not appear regularly, it might be a year or more before another increase appears.

Every once in a while Hard drives are defective, rare but it happens. Taking it in is a call you should make in my opinion.

After reading some of the other responces I would say definetly dont format the disk. That is a pretty severe fix to the problem.

Answer 3

Often a single bad sector will just get marked and the drive will go on living a happy life, but sometimes it just keeps getting worse.
If you try to return it (which you should since you still have warranty) you should say the drive is "developing bad sectors", don't say it has just the one.
You may be required to run a diagnostic on your drive and write down the error code. Do it. Most diagnostic software will halt at the first bad sector it finds.
Don't forget to back up your data!.

Answer 4

Do you want to know about whether it is under warranty? If it is a Samsung or Seagate you can easily verify through the websites of respective companies. All you have to do is give the serial no. and model no. of the drive. It is absolutely free service. I can't tell about Maxtor/Hitachi/Western Digital. I think they too have similar service, at least Maxtor which is now owned by Seagate.

Answer 5

Replace it. At once. Sure, it will work around the bad sectors, but in general, it has a good chance of getting worse and worse, kb by kb, until it gives out.

Answer 6

You will have to defragment your computer! Go on Mycomputer

Right click on C:

Click on properties

Select Tools Tab

Then click on defragment!

IF this does not work, format your hard disk

Answer 7

yes have it replaced while it is under warranty but dont forget to back up your files

Answer 8

depending on your operating system, run either a chkdsk or fdisk on your c drive. use your boot disk to run it prior to booting the OS.

Answer 9

dude, replace it right away, 'cause if it giving that is 'cause has problems

Answer 10

just replace it immidiately