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HDD Formating
  1. #1


    Bogdan Guest

    HDD Formating

    Hi,
    My HDD was formated for ~ 200 times in 4-5 months.
    Can happen with it something bad?
    How many times a hdd can be formated?
    How can I verify in vista if i have bad sectors or not?
    Thanks.
    ps: sorry for my bad english



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  2. #2


    Dominic Payer Guest

    Re: HDD Formating

    Download and run the disk manufacturer's test utility. These are usually a
    bootable CD image and/or a floppy based version.

    You should also test your memory, first with Vista's utility, but memtest
    http://www.memtest.org/ will do a more exacting test.

    There is no limit in principle to how often a disk can be formatted. In this
    case I think you have a hardware problem, which is most likely to be disk or
    system memory related.



    "Bogdan" <Bogdan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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    > Hi,
    > My HDD was formated for ~ 200 times in 4-5 months.
    > Can happen with it something bad?
    > How many times a hdd can be formated?
    > How can I verify in vista if i have bad sectors or not?
    > Thanks.
    > ps: sorry for my bad english

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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