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To: Mario :-) who wrote (75940)6/20/2011 10:05:25 AM
From: Cheeky Kid2 Recommendations  Respond to of 110648
 
Get your drive manufacturer from Device Manager:



Then go to the manufactures web site and look for diagnostic tools for your hard drive, they will include better sector checking than Windows. Windows does not tell you if it repairs bad sectors. It will just report them as bad or nothing at all.