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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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    Hi Thomas,

    It's good that you're engaging in this discussion, thanks.

    Some followup points:

       - System-protecting files (as MawfTech suggested) works only on a running system, but not when you access the disk externally.

    That doesn't really matter though does it. Accessing it externally is only done by your boot loader and kernel anyway, anything else doesn't need to know about it and can't because it's burried withing the encrypted partition table anyway. System-Protection prevents defrag and chkdsk doing anything with it and if it's contiguous then pagedefrag won't touch it either.

      -we do not write anything as bad sectors

    But isn't that exactly what we see, 'bad sectors'.

    Yes, SGE 4.5 does show a small area of bad sectors, 380KB which is much smaller than 98,000KB in SGN. 

    Matt

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    Hi Thomas,

    It's good that you're engaging in this discussion, thanks.

    Some followup points:

       - System-protecting files (as MawfTech suggested) works only on a running system, but not when you access the disk externally.

    That doesn't really matter though does it. Accessing it externally is only done by your boot loader and kernel anyway, anything else doesn't need to know about it and can't because it's burried withing the encrypted partition table anyway. System-Protection prevents defrag and chkdsk doing anything with it and if it's contiguous then pagedefrag won't touch it either.

      -we do not write anything as bad sectors

    But isn't that exactly what we see, 'bad sectors'.

    Yes, SGE 4.5 does show a small area of bad sectors, 380KB which is much smaller than 98,000KB in SGN. 

    Matt

    :4468
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