bad sectors on my ntfs partition, what do i do?

Haneef Bashir darkfena313 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 16:17:03 UTC 2009


i have a three partitioned harddrive. i have windows on the first 10gb
partition. after having some difficulties with windows and the
reinstallation of windows, and now not being able to boot back into
hardy, i grabbed my copy of puppy linux and used the live-cd (which i
am typing on now). i then used gparted to check and repair the windows
partition and this is what i got:
<i>ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)<BR />Device name        :
/dev/sda1<BR />NTFS volume version: 3.1<BR />Cluster size       : 4096
bytes<BR />Current volume size: 11202798080 bytes (11203 MB)<BR
/>Current device size: 11202799104 bytes (11203 MB)<BR />Checking for
bad sectors ...<BR />Bad cluster:  0xbd0bc - 0xbd0bc    (1)<BR />Bad
cluster:  0xbd1f7 - 0xbd1f7    (1)<BR />Bad cluster:  0xbd306 -
0xbd306    (1)<BR />Bad cluster:  0xc0029 - 0xc0029    (1)<BR />ERROR:
This software has detected that the disk has at least 4 bad
sectors.<BR />****************************************************************************<BR
/>* WARNING: The disk has bad sector. This means physical damage on
the disk *<BR />* surface caused by deterioration, manufacturing
faults or other reason.   *<BR />* The reliability of the disk may
stay stable or degrade fast. We suggest  *<BR />* making a full backup
urgently by running 'ntfsclone --rescue ...' then   *<BR />*
run 'chkdsk /f /r' on Windows and rebooot it TWICE! Then you
can resize  *<BR />* NTFS safely by additionally using the
--bad-sectors option of ntfsresize.*<BR
/>****************************************************************************<BR
/></i>

i just want to know is this haddrive still any good? can it be fixed,
can i install windows on another partition with out any problem?




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