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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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    Petr,

    You're spot on!

    Actually had completely forgotten about Grub myself, good call. Was thinking more of the media player systems you get on e.g. Sony laptops or the IBM Recue and Recovery systems. Both create a small hidden partition (after main windows install) using exactly the method you describe and hide their systems inside that. There are many sneaky methods used for this that are signifcantly better than the bad-sector method (that's just copping out if you ask me). Now that Utimaco and Sophos have joined, why don't you guys start looking at e.g. the technology behind rootkits too.

    Matt

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    Petr,

    You're spot on!

    Actually had completely forgotten about Grub myself, good call. Was thinking more of the media player systems you get on e.g. Sony laptops or the IBM Recue and Recovery systems. Both create a small hidden partition (after main windows install) using exactly the method you describe and hide their systems inside that. There are many sneaky methods used for this that are signifcantly better than the bad-sector method (that's just copping out if you ask me). Now that Utimaco and Sophos have joined, why don't you guys start looking at e.g. the technology behind rootkits too.

    Matt

    :4461
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