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This is for dbdb,
Hi, you seem to be knowledgeable about chkdsk, so here is my question. I believe I have some bad physical blocks on my drive, the symptoms being the laptop will sometimes almost grind to a halt but the disc activity lamp is burning constantly. Running chkdsk with the appropriate switches identifies and corrects the bad blocks and afterwards all is well, but only for a few days. My understanding is that when chkdsk finds a bad block or sector it should write the address in a 'spareing' table which should prevent the block ever being accessed again, but this does not seem to be the case because I have seen the same address reported on more than one occasion. I am running Win7/64 ntfs using the delivered version of chkdsk. Any thoughts?