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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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    Thanks again all for the feedback on this.  Fortunately we haven't detected any more bad sectors.  From a support perspective, bad sectors with SG is tricky as the problems seem to manifest in many different ways,making it hard to troubleshoot.  Big shops probably swap the machine out and move on.  We are a small company and do not have an armada of spares.  I'm beginning to wonder if we should schedule a monthly "chkdsk /l /f /v /x" (export results to a file) so we can monitor this.  Hopefully we can do this in a way that does not impact the users much.  JB

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    Thanks again all for the feedback on this.  Fortunately we haven't detected any more bad sectors.  From a support perspective, bad sectors with SG is tricky as the problems seem to manifest in many different ways,making it hard to troubleshoot.  Big shops probably swap the machine out and move on.  We are a small company and do not have an armada of spares.  I'm beginning to wonder if we should schedule a monthly "chkdsk /l /f /v /x" (export results to a file) so we can monitor this.  Hopefully we can do this in a way that does not impact the users much.  JB

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