How to get rid of boot complaint "drive may have bad sectors.." without scandisk.

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Wayne Erickson - 30 Mar 2004 23:42 GMT

I would like to know what triggers the boot complaint "Drive may have
developed bad sectors, press any key to run a surface scan." and how to get
rid of it /without/ running a surface scan with scandisk.

It appears to be a flag in the file system or a flag in the registry
associated with some unique identifier of the drive. It does not appear to
be triggered by a SMART data query of any sort. I'm leaning more towards a
flag in the file system, since a format gets rid of it.

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Wayne Erickson - 31 Mar 2004 03:22 GMT

> I would like to know what triggers the boot complaint "Drive may have
> developed bad sectors, press any key to run a surface scan." and how
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> appear to be triggered by a SMART data query of any sort. I'm leaning
> more towards a flag in the file system, since a format gets rid of it.

I got my answer in a m.p.win98.gen_discussion:
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