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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,

    since I don't know the case and the detailed circumstances how the case was logged I cannot say what has been adviced and what not. However, I strongly believe that the guys have given the relevant information based on the situation.

    Actually we should not try to analyze cases and we cannot analyze cases which we cannot have a closer look into especially since no data was lost which is definitely the most important thing in my oppinion. So far I cannot see any complaint from JB1111 on this one.

    If you or anyone else is concerned about the information or help which they get from support they need to call supprt with their case number and discuss it person to person.

    Regards

    Dan

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    Hi Matt,

    since I don't know the case and the detailed circumstances how the case was logged I cannot say what has been adviced and what not. However, I strongly believe that the guys have given the relevant information based on the situation.

    Actually we should not try to analyze cases and we cannot analyze cases which we cannot have a closer look into especially since no data was lost which is definitely the most important thing in my oppinion. So far I cannot see any complaint from JB1111 on this one.

    If you or anyone else is concerned about the information or help which they get from support they need to call supprt with their case number and discuss it person to person.

    Regards

    Dan

    :5124
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