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The odd bad sector on a drive can happen from "dirty" shutdowns or power outages and are fairly easy to sort out- providing you have enough space to completely empty your hard drive. A lot of bad sectors could mean hardware failure- ie drive is dying.
I would, and have done, perform a low level format on the drive. On a 60gig drive low level format will take around 2 hours. If your mobo has smart monitering of hard drives............. turn it off. Its useless. I have an 80gig paperweight here that smart monitor says is fine.
If you want to follow my advice i can supply you details on how to perform the procedure.
EDIT: You may also want to disable 32bit drive access and block transfer mode in bios, NTFS doesnt like these options too much
Last edited by DoG at Today at 4:16 am
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