Run your scan disk in thorough, it takes a long time but that finds the bad sectors and isolates them so no data is written on them. Lee Rhodes lenella@xxxxxxxxxxx > > bad news...8-) did you check your disk 4 bad blocks? > > > > Alex, > I did notice during the defrag, what might be a lot of bad blocks. > How do I check again without running defrag again? > Can this be fixed? > What is an acceptable amount for a 30G HDD? > > HB To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/