Just bought a USB2.0/ESATA 1TB drive. It works fine. All was good at first. A day and a half later my primary started making noises. I ran a scan and during stage four it popped a message about bad clusters. The machine continued to have trouble after the scan so I shut down. The next day I bought a 500GB drive to replace my data drive so that it could replace my primary. The cloning d(250) -> NewD(500) and c(120) to NewC(250) worked flawlessly. Thank you Acronis. Curious about the condition of the drive and not wanting to toss it I added it back in as an extra drive and ran chkdsk on it. It did not list any bad sectors after a format.
I decided for now to use it to store Virtual machines and hard drives for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. I have these backed up and use them infrequently anyway.
I got the message about bad clusters and do not show any bad sectors. Does this make any kind of sense? It's never going back in as an important drive. Is this just an example of the drive remapping itself independent of the OS?
I decided for now to use it to store Virtual machines and hard drives for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. I have these backed up and use them infrequently anyway.
I got the message about bad clusters and do not show any bad sectors. Does this make any kind of sense? It's never going back in as an important drive. Is this just an example of the drive remapping itself independent of the OS?
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