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<blockquote data-quote="Malleable" data-source="post: 999997" data-attributes="member: 90907">Drives often come straight from the manufacturer with bad sectors if the quantity falls within their acceptable specifications.&nbsp; If you used chkdsk with the /r parameter and are now not seeing any bad sectors, these, as stated above, have been marked as unusable and taken out of service where they should not cause a problem.&nbsp; I would chkdsk the drive in another week or two for bad sectors and maybe once again after that.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t find any more problems everything should be fine.&nbsp; Later versions of Windows are pretty good at notifying users about approaching hard drive problems.&nbsp; I personally have been satisfied&nbsp; just manually using Windows occasionally to monitor the most basic drive health (admin cmd prompt &gt; wmic &gt; diskdrive get status) on both personal computers and a small number of business workstations.&nbsp; These kinds of things unless simplified can drive a person crazy (which, all in all, hasn&#039;t been as bad as it&#039;s made out to be).And don&#039;t forget to throw an occasional simple sfc /scannow from the Windows Terminal (Admin) interface into the mix for OS integrity violations.&nbsp; I like to do mine right before my weekly backup disk imaging.Forgot to note you should run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth from an elevated command prompt first.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malleable, post: 999997, member: 90907"] Drives often come straight from the manufacturer with bad sectors if the quantity falls within their acceptable specifications. If you used chkdsk with the /r parameter and are now not seeing any bad sectors, these, as stated above, have been marked as unusable and taken out of service where they should not cause a problem. I would chkdsk the drive in another week or two for bad sectors and maybe once again after that. If you don't find any more problems everything should be fine. Later versions of Windows are pretty good at notifying users about approaching hard drive problems. I personally have been satisfied just manually using Windows occasionally to monitor the most basic drive health (admin cmd prompt > wmic > diskdrive get status) on both personal computers and a small number of business workstations. These kinds of things unless simplified can drive a person crazy (which, all in all, hasn't been as bad as it's made out to be). And don't forget to throw an occasional simple sfc /scannow from the Windows Terminal (Admin) interface into the mix for OS integrity violations. I like to do mine right before my weekly backup disk imaging. Forgot to note you should run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth from an elevated command prompt first. [/QUOTE]

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