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How to check if bad sectors has affected windows installation?
Hi,
I have installed windows 7 x64, the installation went fine, it runs fine, no bsods, no crashes, no restarts, no freezes, no slowdown. Basically it just runs fine, all updates installed fine.
Now, I did a scan on the HDD, and it has bad sectors pending. I imaged the windows to another HDD.
Loaded onto the other HDD, it boots fine, runs fine, idles fine, installed a few things, checked the files system, ran chkdsk ( just fix box, not the second box to repair ), all OK.
So my question is, how can I know if the bad sectors on old HDD had any damage to the windows installation, and thus on the new HDD?
If the bad sectors caused data loss or corruption, before I imaged it on the old HDD, how would it show up on the new HDD. Should I being seeing any bsods, freezing, slowness? Any software to test to make sure it has not been affected in any way?
Thank you!