From: "Geo" 

How often? Also chkdsk will report them, but you have to look in event
manager to see the report after the reboot. Do a chkdsk /R.

Geo.

"David B"  wrote in message
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> CHKDSK doesn't report bad blocks, event manager does.
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> > 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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