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Old October 28th 17, 09:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Neil
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On 10/28/2017 9:40 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Neil" wrote

| I discovered the hard way that Win8.x disregards CHKDSK (!), and SMART
| eventually killed the drive's boot sectors
|

Could you explain that? I thought SMART was just
a way to communicate diagnostic data from the drive.

It's more than just info. SMART is a disk management tool built-in to
the drive's firmware that performs the same kinds of functions as
CHKDSK; it notes bad sectors, uses a portion of the drive's track to
store that info, reassigns the data to sectors on a different track, and
so on.

The issue I ran into is that bad sectors that should have been isolated
by CHKDSK was disregarded by Win8.1 and kept writing to those sectors
until it exceeded the SMART's track allocation space.

Do
you have any links to info that might be relevant?

I'd suggest doing a search to find info that best fits your level of
understanding of the hardware.

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best regards,

Neil
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