Where did this come from?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Where did this come from?

With the exception of the first one, my belief is that these should never be nonzero, otherwise the drive is not reliable and should be replaced.

Agreed. Pull all critical data off it and replace drive ASAP. It isn't fun when it starts losing data, or worse, if it fails all at once. Been thru both situations.

@ shovenose: Is *your* hard drive really relevant in this topic?

[lti]

Re: Where did this come from?

That drive has had bad sectors for over a year. The computer is so slow and has so many other problems that it wasn't worth repairing. This computer will be replaced soon.

[momaka]

Re: Where did this come from?

That drive has had bad sectors for over a year. The computer is so slow and has so many other problems that it wasn't worth repairing.

I've had HDDs with bad sectors for many years as well - it just all depends where they are. In my case, none of them had them where the OS files were so the computers were mostly unaffected.
We do have one laptop at work that boots extremely slow due to a dying 30 GB IBM/Hitachi Travelstar hard drive, though. I just looked into it last week. On boot up, the hard drive would click for about 5 minutes before finally completing the boot. Once it boots up, the computer runs fine with no problem. After running chkdsk, the computer booted very quickly twice, then the old problem resumed.
And this is not just an individual case. I have an old laptop HDD of my own (also an IBM/Hitachi Travelstar, 12 GB) that also has this issue. Amazingly, neither did the laptop at work nor my laptop show any problems when I ran the Hitachi Fitness Test Utility on those hard drives. Go figure.
So your laptop may actually be slow due to that reason. I'm using a PIII laptop for school, and it's pretty decent. I find it particularly funny that half the computers at school actually run slower, even though they are Core 2 Duos.

With the exception of the first one, my belief is that these should never be nonzero, otherwise the drive is not reliable and should be replaced.

Well, not if you're looking at the raw data. Sometimes you may see a drive with 1 or 2 bad sectors still show "100" under the value column.

[lti]

Re: Where did this come from?

So your laptop may actually be slow due to that reason.

The CPU performance is extremely low. A 733MHz PIII is faster than the 1.2GHz Athlon XP-M in this computer and the graphics card has driver issues. Also, the computer gets hot enough to produce a burning smell. The computer is an HP Pavilion ze1210.

Also, the hard drive comment was supposed to be sarcastic.

[shovenose]

Re: Where did this come from?

@ shovenose: Is *your* hard drive really relevant in this topic?

Nope. Just providing a comparison :P

[b700029]

Re: Where did this come from?

Well, not if you're looking at the raw data. Sometimes you may see a drive with 1 or 2 bad sectors still show "100" under the value column.

My experience is that unless it came from the factory with those values nonzero, once a bad sector appears it's soon followed by many more.

[Agent24]

Re: Where did this come from?

If a drive came from the factory with bad sectors on the G-list I would want a refund.