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SG Enterprise encryption - Bad Sectors survey

jb1111

Has anyone here encountered bad sectors on encrypted machines?  I had 2 computers run for 3-4 months, get bad sectors and start crashing or going to a Windows screen with no icons <-you can only power off at this point.  Attempting to fix the bad sectors does not help.  The only thing I've gotten to work is backup the files (assuming I can even get into the system) and destroy the hard disk with Dban or killdisk.  These low level format and, "Zero out" the drive.  Once this 6 hour process is done, I reload Windows.  Chkdsk no longer shows bad sectors and life is good.

Has anyone come up with another approach to bad sectors or other hard drive issues?  I am most concerned this will be a monthly occurance.  Perhaps I could get a utility to report when drives start getting bad sectors?

Thanks.

PS - my SG policy is set to, "Proceed on bad sectors = yes"

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    Nope, in this instance, it was a faulty drive and it had 96MB's of bad sectors. As per my post, I ran chkdsk /r to look at the disk after reimaging and it had 96MB's of bad sectors without Utimaco/Sophos installed. Now that a new disk is fitted, the machine reports 0 bad sectors with SGN5.50 so I don't follow where you think Sophos is marking the area the kernel is installed in as bad. I can understand it marking it as a system area so that defrag won't touch it but it would be a very bad thing IMHO to mark it bad. Can you point to where you found your information?

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    Nope, in this instance, it was a faulty drive and it had 96MB's of bad sectors. As per my post, I ran chkdsk /r to look at the disk after reimaging and it had 96MB's of bad sectors without Utimaco/Sophos installed. Now that a new disk is fitted, the machine reports 0 bad sectors with SGN5.50 so I don't follow where you think Sophos is marking the area the kernel is installed in as bad. I can understand it marking it as a system area so that defrag won't touch it but it would be a very bad thing IMHO to mark it bad. Can you point to where you found your information?

    Matt

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