Troth I've had one Maxtor go bad. It was the one that came installed in my Gateway I bought in November of 2000. I have another that I have moved from Tower to Tower to Tower. I have had it maybe 6 or 7 years. I have three Winchesters. The oldest is 4 years and the newest one year. The third I've had about three. I don't recall what type of drive is in my Compaq laptop. As far as seeing the data, do you want to see what Scan Disk and Disk Doctor tells you? With out looking, I recall there is an option to save or print the report. Or are you looking for real time data? I think one of Karen's Power Tools does that. Also try a program called LookDisk. from luorno Software. Or just run Scan disk again, only don't ask it to make corrections, just analyze. Dave ----------------------------- From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- HD Companies Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:49:37 -0400 Let's talk about hard drive manufacturers. Just today... the 4th time I've had a hard drive go bad. My first and second drives were Maxtors, my 3rd was an IBM (oem), and my 4th, today, was a Maxtor. Today's however, came up with the most damage... a wopping 6GB bad sectors. Luckily, it was in an unused area of the drive, so I lost no info, but it has taken up a considerable amount of my time, cause Windows scan disk didn't want to work... just kept freezing up at around 95%. Norton Disk Doctor was freezing up too, but after reformatting the drive from scratch, Norton was able to secure the bad sectors. So... question... what sort of luck has everyone been having with hard drives? Any streaks on drives going bad? What brands? Next question... anyone know how I can go back and see specific data on my drive? It seems that after you do either Scan Disk or Disk Doctor, it tells you at the end report that you have so-and-so sectors bad, but after the report is gone, there's no way to pull up the info to see how much is bad and how much is good? Any way to do it in Windows? Or, maybe another program I can buy? ---Troth www.geocities.com/wooledge001_/ www.mental-health-advocate.us wooledge001@xxxxxxxx wooledge001_@xxxxxxxxxxx dwooledge@xxxxxxxx AOL dfwooledge ICQ 59686911 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/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk