Faulty HD (Samsung 320GB)?

[Ice_Black]

What does this error mean, should I be worried?



I did not get any error when I formatted my HD:

[GoNz0]

if its unknown you cant use that as a faulty part as it could be as daft as saying its turned on.

[Ice_Black]

I would like to know if you guys are getting the same on Samsung HD322HJ (320GB).

[GoNz0]

it wouldnt matter if they did, its not a problem as its a generic tool and not specific to that drive

[moogle]

Mines not the same sammy but it's a Sammy and I'm not getting that error.

[Ice_Black]

I did a CHKDSK.

I have 40 KB in bad sectors.

82429483 KB total disk space.
7372912 KB in 16795 files.
4904 KB in 1138 indexes.
40 KB in bad sectors.
90095 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
74961532 KB available on disk.

I have tried CHKDSK with the /F and it didnt fix it. What should I do?

[GoNz0]

it wont fix it as there allocated as bad sectors so windows wont use them again

you could low level format the drive, then it would hide them from the operating system as it will use spare sectors insead of those to give the correct disk size

[Ice_Black]

I have warrenty.. I can give it back to get fixed or replaced?

[GoNz0]

not with so few sectors replaced you cant

they build drives with extra sectors, if one is flagged as bad the drive allocates another one to replace it, there will be a lot of spare sectors and after running the drive makers test tool it will flag it as clean

like i said, you can low level format the drive and it will remove them from windows as it wont see them in the 1st place.

so no you cant send it back or you may get charged to take return of the same drive if you try to pull a fast one as its within specs and doing what its ment to by flagging the bad sector

[Ice_Black]

Oh ok.

When you say "low level format"... which one are you referring to?

do you mean from Samsung Diagnostic Disk or .... Windows XP CD using Full Format Without Quick.

[GoNz0]

sammy diagnostic disk m8

[watercooled]

See what the Samsung Diagnostic Disk says about SMART data - I think it's an .iso that you download and burn to a CD then boot from it. Look for SMART data. As previously mentioned, do a low level format if possible. If you are concerned, you could contact Samsung and see what they have to say about it.

[watercooled]

Samsung Diagnostic Tool wouldn't run on my system for some reason, but I did run HD Tune to see what I got: It looks like B8 isn't read correctly by this tool - I have 2 drives, bot fairly new and B8 is yellow on both so I wouldn't worry about it. Not sure about the Reallocated Sector Count, mind.

[Ice_Black]

I might have to return HD back.

I keep getting files corrupt and I have to use chkdsk all the time to fix the problems. I never had that problem on old previous HD.