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Old October 28th 17, 11:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Mayayana
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"Neil" wrote

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

I don't understand. I very, very rarely run CHKDSK, so
I don't see why it should have a big effect.

| 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.

You have no corroborating docs for your
theory? Then how do you know that's what
happened?


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