Bad sectors in my PC. Yes or not??

[phreak0ut]

I've got a strange diagnostic after running multiple hard disk diagnostic tools. I had a doubt that my system might have developed bad sectors and I ran

1)HD Tune. The result is, the drive is good. NO BAD SECTORS

2)Hard Drive Inspector Professional. Result->NO BAD SECTORS

3)Hard Disk Sentinel. Result->1 BAD SECTOR

4)chkdsk from windows, properly done. Result-> NO BAD SECTORS

5)HDD Life Pro. Result->NO BAD SECTORS

So, is this a false positive or should I really be concerned? I might buy a new HD. Which should I buy? I'm now having a Seagate 160GB SATA-I and it just finished its 5 year warranty as well

[imgame2]

i don't think there is any bad sector as 4 out of 5 software gave no bad sectors ...
why did u think that ur HDD might have bad sectors anyway ..??

if buying a new one go for WD 640(16 mb)Gb AAKS for 3.7k ..or seagate 640 Gb (32 MB) for 3.8k ...

they are value for money !!

[phreak0ut]

The performance and health status is showing 50% only in HDD Life Pro compared to 90% of Health and Performance of 100% in Hard Disk Sentinel. It's all a bit crazy. Thanks for the advice on the new HD, but my motherboard doesn't support 640GB. I should settle for 2x160GB. I just might go for a WD. What do you think about Hitachi HDs?

[acewin]

How old is the HDD. May have become weak and is telling you to replace HDD.

besides what caused you to run all these diagnostics

[phreak0ut]

The HD is 5 years old. The reason I started doing this diagnostic is because I was a bit doubtful about the condition as my system has shut down due to power fluctation and the UPS couldn't handle the delay properly

[entrana]

system shutting down due to fluctuation has nothing to do with the hdd. u have ur ups to blame

[casanova]

Seagate support is a bit weird. Go there and ask for a replacement. You might be lucky. They don't spend much time in checking whether it is under warranty.

And as entrana said this is a problem with ur ups. Try a diagnostic utility from Seagate's website as well.

[Power_user_EX]

use "chkdsk <drive>: /r" command to find out for actual bad sectors - it will scan each sector one by one - will take much time to complete though.

[comp@ddict]

Well...y checking soo much,...if u r performance is still not hampered...itna tension kyun ko leh raha hai???

Thanda pi, thanda ho ja

[phreak0ut]

I'm not really sure if it's because of the UPS only. Anyway, I'll try to get that checked.

@power_user-I ran the chkdsk /f and /r implies /f so, the check was thorough.

@comp@ddict-I guess, I'll relax. It's the movies which I've got. Most of it is backed up, but some are yet to backed up. Just need the right genre to back it up right

[comp@ddict]

THere's no probs then..off u go mate then...nice...dun worry too much...nthin problem here..din check my hdd for past 3 eayrs once to be honest