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Bad Sectors on HD
Packard Bell machine with original HD - ancient beast.
Owner is unemployed like me, so can't afford a new HD or machine.
Windows CHKDSK shows 52KB in bad sectors (my usual response - get a new HD)
Ran SeaTools For DOS - it found the expected 13 bad sectors and offered to repair them, so I said go ahead - said it had fixed them
Ran Seatools again, passed.
Back in WIndows, ran CHKDSK /R to clear the Windows bad sector tags - but it still shows 52KB in bad sectors.
Seatools is running again.
IF (big if) Seatools gives it the green light, is there any other way to clear the bad sector tags from Windows?