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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    Wow, for the TENTH time I DIDN'T deny what they all describe! Please read posts and articles better for your own sake! They don't mention anything about what we're debating and you're considering that as a support and proof. READ what I'm saying! I showed you people, including me, who are...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    Great! Twist the meaning of my words yet again, just as you say that my links don't say anything about zero-writing! Did you even read my post about why they DON'T mention it?? How does it prove your point when it's not even discussing the matter?? Again, did you even explain the supporting...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    If that's true, perhaps zero-writing does that too by handing that task off to the hard-drive controller? Since trying to overwrite bad sectors usually follows by remapping them?
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    There you go again, giving documentation which doesn't say anything about bad sectors and yet when I show you dozens of posts about ppl saying that zero-writing remaps bad sectors and having experienced this you still say that they didn't say that at all. And products also normally only...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    This is unbelievable. The reason I stated this is because an MVP Moderator said that a full format marks bad sectors and I showed you with the KB article that it states "writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed" such that zero-writing does the same thing. Since you're...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    Wow, this is hilarious. Clearly you're not paying any attention. I'm not making any stuff up, it's just you who's not reading carefully. According to the KB article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/941961 : "By default in Windows Vista and later versions, the format command writes zeros...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    It's funny how you're practically refusing to accept ANY statement, even from official Microsoft Community Moderators. What makes your own suggestion that zero-writing does not mark bad sectors stronger compared to them? I'd at least expect that MVP's HAVE done their homework correctly. If you...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    I used the command prompt "Clean All" to zero-write the HDD. What I'm stating here is the description of what zero-writing in general does. People talking could well indeed be spreading rumors, but if I'm providing several other independent sources as well, don't you think the odds of it being...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    I don't mean to refuse to accept your explanation without any grounds. I think you don't get me, as you said. My statement is based on readings that I did and these readings tell me that zero-writing DOES make the HDD mark bad sectors and will never use these bad sectors further (.e.g hide...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    My purpose was not to have any data in the bad sectors. By zero-writing it, the HDD will mark them as bad sectors and not use them for the coming time period if any new data is going to be written. Also, I wanted to reset Current Pending Sectors and see how fast it will increase from that. I...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    I fully agree with you and I love the analogy :P. I'm curious to see how fast the count will go up from scratch. Do you happen to know the limit of the number of reallocation sectors in a HDD?
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    The thing is, that there are an increasing number of pending sectors that chkdsk apparently can't seem to correct. Zero-writing would delete everything on these sectors (the HDD would "notice" that the data on it is irrelevant) and not use it in the future, at least that's what I read about it...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    I'm considering to fully zero-write the harddrive to scan and see if it can reallocate the bad sectors. I have a Hitachi HDD but I'm not sure which software to use for this. Any ideas on this?
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    Thanks for the info. Something weird just happened. So I ran chkdsk /r at next boot and after it finished I let Speccy show me the S.M.A.R.T. data again and now it says that the HDD has 602 Reallocated Sectors Count (359 before), and 64 Current Pending Sector Count (16 before). Could a chkdsk /r...
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    I have indeed made a backup of my wanted data. Is it that serious? How come Speccy say that everything is fine?
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    Event 7 Bad block in HDD but normal SMART?

    Good day, To my surprise, when looking at the log events, I noticed 74 error logs starting from 27th of April saying "Bad block found in device /Device/Harddisk0\DR0 From what I know (although I'm not sure) you can look up the number of the disk in Disk Management and I found that "Disk 0"...
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    Svchost.exe crashing since April Updates?

    Hello all, For some reason, I noticed several svchost.exe crashes in the Reliability History ever since I installed some Windows and Office updates from April 2016. The program that is tied to the svchost.exe crash is the Program Compatibility Assistant Service. The crashes has occurred 3 times...
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    A whole hassle with the OneDrive icon

    Good day all, Call me an OCD freak, but this has been bugging me and I can't seem to fix this for no obvious reason. For some reason, my OneDrive icon in my User folder seemed to change to a plain standard folder icon a while after my have started my PC. So I wanted to fix this by going to...
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    No Custom install for Office 2016?

    I posted my question on the Microsoft forums as well and someone named Brad[M] gave me a solution to this found here: Custom install gone? - Microsoft Community In case you don't have the ISO, use this link: [Tip] Customize Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) Setup to Install Selected Programs...
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    No Custom install for Office 2016?

    Good day all, Sorry if this has been asked before but after I installed Office 2016 Pro, I noticed that it immediately pooped all of the Office apps onto my PC including ones that I really don't need. There's no custom option to select the ones you want and the ones you don't (unlike Office...
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