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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 Matt,

    the setting mentioned by JB1111 only checks if a user my boot from the CD after the POA/PBA. This will not restrict access to the drive in any way. However, wirh regards to this one I think that the plan of JB1111 was to boot after the POA to repair Windows somehow.

    With regards to Recovery you can for sure also boot before the POA using WinPE and then access the drive via Recoverytoken as described in the manual. But even when doing so one will have to copy the data on a external hard drive so it might even be easier to slave the drive depending on the infrastructure that you have.

    Regards

    Dan

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    Hi Matt,

    the setting mentioned by JB1111 only checks if a user my boot from the CD after the POA/PBA. This will not restrict access to the drive in any way. However, wirh regards to this one I think that the plan of JB1111 was to boot after the POA to repair Windows somehow.

    With regards to Recovery you can for sure also boot before the POA using WinPE and then access the drive via Recoverytoken as described in the manual. But even when doing so one will have to copy the data on a external hard drive so it might even be easier to slave the drive depending on the infrastructure that you have.

    Regards

    Dan

    :5122
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