Sort of the doctor.
After I got everything up and running again, my back-up program (Acronis) could run without problems.
Not before after I ran Defraggler 2.20.
As I said: it told (?) me that the defragmentation would take over 1 day, which normaly would tak about 5 minutes.
Afterwards, All the problems with bad sectors and bad clusters arose.
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When you say that a defrag program CAN NOT give you bad sectors, you should try to tell hat to the DOS-Ghost program, which could not back-up the drive 100% after defrag?
I stopped using that defrag program, and Ghost worked as normal again.
Just as It did now when I went back to version 2.19 and had no problems at all..
You say it can NOT be caused by the defrag program.
Defraggler Reads Writes Reads Writes,
i am NOT a technician. But when a program runs and afterwards you got problems with sectors.clusters, Than that is not caused by running (let us say) firefox.
As I said before: also Linux could not read the drive anymore.
You can ignore what haooend here,, but thet means every user is in danger.
Mind you: If you stand on it (wrong expression) I wil install the 2.20 again, running the risk that my drive again reportd bad secors.
I can do that. I have back-up gelore.
But if my harddisk fails. It fails, en takes 10 other systems with it.