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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