Bad sector

Yes

HD Tune has a vested interest in finding disk errors. but i'm sceptical that way.

So there is no problem in it?

i would trust windows chkdsk. what problems did you have that made you download HD Tune?

kword88 said:

i would trust windows chkdsk. what problems did you have that made you download HD Tune?

I just googled for hd problem checker and I found that ..So no problems rite?

i wouldnt think there is a problem, otherwise windows chkdsk would find and fix it. but since you went to the trouble of searching for such a utility, i assume you are experiencing some sort of problem?

All hard drives have an internal area to which bad sectors are placed via the fimware. If this area becomes full then the OS (chkdsk) will start to see these and this is when problems start to occur. You are not at this stage yet so the drive is still, in my eyes anyway, fine.

I think the 47 bad sectors is in fact a relocation count, those moved to the internal area. As said in an earlier post - many drives come shipped with bad sectors and are placed in this internal buffer, so most people would never know it.

SolarWind said:

All hard drives have an internal area to which bad sectors are placed via the fimware. If this area becomes full then the OS (chkdsk) will start to see these and this is when problems start to occur. You are not at this stage yet so the drive is still, in my eyes anyway, fine.

I think the 47 bad sectors is in fact a relocation count, those moved to the internal area. As said in an earlier post - many drives come shipped with bad sectors and are placed in this internal buffer, so most people would never know it.

Yes absolutely bad sectors were found in relocation sector count.

You can't do read smart on an external USB drive even if the drive supports it. The drive has to be sata attached.