Hard drive errors


  1. johncm
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    win 7 hp 32
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    Hard drive errors


    Hi, Being new to this forum I have 1 question; why do most of my hard drives have errors? smart says they are ok but when useing a program like disk check it shows sector and electric errors? even my usb drive I do my backups on shows errors. no they dont throw codes or anything but most have something wrong.I have been building desktops for awhile and I thought all my drives were good. If im not getting an error code and all is well, is it really ok? thx for the advice
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  3. Corazon
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    What are you using to check your disks? I have no idea what "electric errors" are supposed to be.

    Please provide more specific details, i.e. error messages word-by-word. Other than the reported errors, are you having any other problem at all with any of your drives? i.e. unexpected failure to copy/move/read/save files, random crashes, etc.?
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  4. johncm
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    sorry about the delay, Im usuing seatools and the drive tools from hp. The hp tools said replace the drive, passed seatools short test but failed the long test. i have 4kb in bad sectors but no errors or messages.this is in a laptop but i have an external drive and an internal desktop drive all with bad sectors but they work. if i run chkdsk will they still cause a problem or do they get bypassed
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