From: "David B" 

CHKDSK doesn't report bad blocks, event manager does.


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4200168d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> At a guess the HD is failing. I've had 2 laptop drives go in the past 3
> months. First thing you notice is extra drive activity, I figured it was
> reading the same sectors again and again trying to get the data with no
> errors. Every time I would chkdsk I would see more bad blocks.
>
> Run chkdsk 3 times, if you see more bad blocks each time then the drive is
> going.
>
> Geo.
>
> "David Blair"  wrote in message
> news:41ffcc75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I have a laptop, 2.8ghz Celeron, 512mb RAM, ultra slow 30 gig HD. (Hey,
> it's
>> a laptop, after all. Why DO they insist on using 4300 rpm drives?)
>>
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, this suddenly started running VERY slowly. Lots of
> HD
>> access. But no spyware shows up with AdAware or SpyBot, and no viruses
>> are
>> detected. I've defragged it about 7 zillion times.
>>
>> I get a bad block error showing my event viewer, but CHKDSK doesn't seem
> to
>> mark it when it runs at startup.
>>
>> Why would I be running so horrendously slow? Any ideas where to look? And
>> how do I get the bad block locked out?
>>
>>
>
>

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