xyzkk1 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Hi folks, I ran Defraggler a few times on my NTFS drive in Windows XP to defragment and move all files to the start of the HD. I wanted to make another partition and install Windows 7. It's a nice program by the way! I noticed Defraggler listed some bad sectors, so I ran chkdsk (XP) including the scan and attempt to repair bad sectors. After a few hours it reported 0KB in bad sectors. When I came back to defrag again, I see the bad sectors are still marked and the purple MFT marker stretched from 2 blocks to like 50 blocks (and is now in a bad position near the end of the drive...). I don't know much about harddrives (yet), but please give me some explanation or link me if you can help me understand what is going on here. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabdul Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 where do you read that there are bad sectors. normally (or better said: as standard) the purple sectors are reserved for the so called mft: there are information stored where you're files are and how they are called and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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