$badclus??????do i have bad clusters

[mizar]

Hi,first of all i'm sorry for my bad english

my question is that:
when i hit analyze button in perfectdisk 8 it shows a file called $badclus:bad
as locked with no fragments ; i searched about this file and learned that it maintains a list of bad clusters on the drive; so

1)Do i really have bad clusters just because of existence of the file?:blink:
2)How can i learn whether or not i have any bad clusters and fix them if i have any???

thanks in advance

[Rico]

Hello Mizar,

The best way I know to sort this out (assume were talking XP) would be running CHKDSK from windows recovery console:

Basically you would: Boot from your windows disk
Choose "R" for repair
enter the command "chkdsk /r" sans the quote marks

for more information see:

http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/recovery_console/recovery_console.shtml

I do this regularly once a month

Rake Care
Rico

[mizar]

thanks for the info rico

i also found the following threads to avoid bad clusters when imaging/restoring the drive

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=815165&postcount=15

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=393295&postcount=48