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bad sectors on hard drive

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/bad-sectors-on-hard-drive.132163/

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shirodkarsm Original post #1
Sep 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM
recently i had to change my hard drive and bought a new one.
also recently i started using ubuntu 10.04 alongwith windows xp.
when i run the disk utility in ubuntu it states that drive contains some bad sectors. however scandisk in windows and also a free s.m.a.r.t. program i ran does not show any bad sectors. which of these reports do i consider to be correct and is there any other method to confirm bad sectors on anewly bought hard drive.
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paroh #2
Sep 26, 2010 at 6:15 PM
First try the company utility to check the disk. like segate seatools for seagate hard disk and maxtor hard disk

or try HDD Regenerator