Oct 25, 2012, bought a custom made hi end computer, Quad 4, 16Gig memory, Nvidia GF 650. (Edit Win 7 not XP altho' my XP computer is running fine!)
I ran chkdsks frequently with 0 or a few bad sectors reported. Now I have 39200316 bad sectors on my 1 TB seagate HD, which chkdsk just reports but doesn't fix. Every week the # of bad sectors has gone up. All my wininit reports in Event Viewer before Jan 20, 2013 have disappeared. That's when I installed Dragon speech 12 and the next day got a BSD. Then Dragon ran kind of wonky and other weird things started to happen (see attached excel file). IE8 & steam are getting balky. I uninstalled Dragon but my bad sectors keep going up.
I've searched for HD bad sector repair programs but most sound bogus or dicey.
I know my HD is probably failing. My custom computer maker is not available until Friday. Any suggestions? TIA
OneMug
I ran chkdsks frequently with 0 or a few bad sectors reported. Now I have 39200316 bad sectors on my 1 TB seagate HD, which chkdsk just reports but doesn't fix. Every week the # of bad sectors has gone up. All my wininit reports in Event Viewer before Jan 20, 2013 have disappeared. That's when I installed Dragon speech 12 and the next day got a BSD. Then Dragon ran kind of wonky and other weird things started to happen (see attached excel file). IE8 & steam are getting balky. I uninstalled Dragon but my bad sectors keep going up.
I've searched for HD bad sector repair programs but most sound bogus or dicey.
I know my HD is probably failing. My custom computer maker is not available until Friday. Any suggestions? TIA
OneMug