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Re: Is Vista to Blame?
If chkdsk is telling you that you have defective sectors, that is a physical
disk problem and is cured by replacing the bad drive. They can not be
repaired.
Logical disk errors can be repaired by running chkdsk ?: /f, where the ? is
replaced by the drive you wish to test. Run this command from an elevated
command prompt window (run as administrator).
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Regards,
Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
"Bill Anderson" <billanderson601@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:A_Wdnb7EPbg47ZrbnZ2dnUVZ_ruknZ2d@rcn.net...
> Kerry Brown wrote:
>> Combining RAID 0 with a dynamic disk is a disaster waiting to happen.
>> When one of the drives fails you will lose the data with very little hope
>> of recovery unless you have a current backup. The fact that in all OS'
>> the volume is showing errors is very disturbing and indicative of a bad
>> drive. Are there any errors in any of the event logs in any of the OS'
>> that are errors reading or writing to this volume?
>>
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> Yes, there were error reports all over the place in the event logs, all
> dealing with bad sectors on K:, the dynamic drive -- the RAID array.
>
> I ran Checkdisk on the drive from within Windows and it did find errors.
> I've copied everything off the drive again and reformatted it -- this time
> a full format. I'm running Checkdisk on it again, as I'm typing this.
> Disk Manager still reports that the drive has errors and is at risk,
> though healthy, whatever that means.
>
> My current RAID array is the only RAID array I've ever dealt with. As it
> seemed to be working fine, I have never been too concerned about Disk
> Manager reporting errors. I figured that was standard for a RAID array. So
> here goes with a dumb question: If you have a RAID array, would you
> please look at it in Disk Manager and tell me whether it shows up clean
> with no errors, with no "at risk" flag? Have I been ignoring something
> really important for the past six months? The drive does tell me it's
> "healthy," after all.
>
> Checkdisk continues to run. This time I'm running it in Vista. We'll see
> what happens in the morning. And thanks for alerting me to the event log.
> I hadn't thought to look there.
>
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> Bill Anderson
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> I am the Mighty Favog
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