Bad Sectors

[Comatose51]

So Windows' chkdsk tells me that the NEW WD 80 Gig SE I'm using to replace another WD 80 Gig has a few MORE bad sectors than the one it is replacing! :eek:

WTF! I think all these bad sectors are flukes. Can it be cables? What is a DEFINITIVE program I can use to check my hard drive's state? The WD programs tell me that they're fine. Windows' program doesn't bother tell me the state. It just runs and then tells me that it's done. chkdsk tell me that I have bad sectors but Microsoft is saying that those aren't actually bad sectors but are those that already existed when the drives left the factory. Anyone here have experience with this? Please help!

Lastly, what's the BEST way to clone a hard drive??? Drive Image and Ghost most doesn't seem to be working very well or I'm doing something really wrong. When I put in the clone, it tells me that ntoskernel is not found or corrupt.

Thanks in advance.

[AR]

Originally posted by Comatose51
So Windows' chkdsk tells me that the NEW WD 80 Gig SE I'm using to replace another WD 80 Gig has a few MORE bad sectors than the one it is replacing! :eek:

WTF! I think all these bad sectors are flukes. Can it be cables? What is a DEFINITIVE program I can use to check my hard drive's state? The WD programs tell me that they're fine. Windows' program doesn't bother tell me the state. It just runs and then tells me that it's done. chkdsk tell me that I have bad sectors but Microsoft is saying that those aren't actually bad sectors but are those that already existed when the drives left the factory. Anyone here have experience with this? Please help!

Lastly, what's the BEST way to clone a hard drive??? Drive Image and Ghost most doesn't seem to be working very well or I'm doing something really wrong. When I put in the clone, it tells me that ntoskernel is not found or corrupt.

Thanks in advance.

Well, I've seen you post for a while, so you probably have checked both of these options but:

Bad IDE cable (slim).

Overclocking? Maybe doing them in.

Power supply with a bad rail, or bad overall. <-- Definitely switch molexes for the HD just to see - shouldn't be a problem at all, and who knows.

[Comatose51]

My PSU is pretty good. I think it was made by Enlight or Antec. My next suspect is the cable. Anyhow, any idea on the ntorkrnl.exe being corrupted? I've heard people mention boot.ini being the culprit.

[texuspete00]

What are your system specs?

My DFI Infinity didnt like my WD 160GB so I put it on a controller card and have been better off.

[Comatose51]

The motherboard is a MSI NForce2 board. It's running Athlon 2400+ and 512 megs of RAM..

What I can't seem to understand is that no matter what program I use to clone the system drive, the resulting copy would always fail to boot. Most of the time it's ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt error (which is not true because I've restored it using the Win2k CD). Other times it gives me the Blue Screen telling me the drive is not accessible.

[Ice Czar]

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=721012&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

if your clone images are getting screwed up, more than likely its either a hardware issue (memory\cables)
or busmastering driver