if you have that much bad just buy a new drive for the $90 and cross copy the data and chuck the old drive into the scrap bin - much more reliable than attempting to do magnetic fixes when ultimately a dead voice coil or platter motor will make your drive inacessable. -----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Madrachod@xxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:53 AM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: Spinrite In a message dated 6/10/2004 3:57:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: If it saves your drive and adds life to it, then it's worth the purchace price. It sounds as if you're a candidate for it. Very possibly, I have nearly 361000 bad sectors at last check. It was about half that a few months ago, then all of a sudden, about 3 months ago, I ran Scandisc (usually every sunday after I get off line, along with AVG and Defrag) and I had double the amount bad. Dale