HDD GURU FORUMS

Hi,

I have a SATA Seagate hdd running on WXP. Recently i've been experienced some problems accessing to some files. Chkdsk /f /r says that some clusters are damaged (about 4), but hddscan reports that there aren't damaged blocks.
My question is: are 'block' (hddscan) and 'cluster' (chkdsk) the same concept?.

How can i be sure that it is safe and reliable to keep using that hdd?
Thank you very much in advance!.
Sergio.

Hi sergiales.

I think a Block size = 1 in hddscan have a size of 512 byte and correspond to a sector.
A cluster with WXP summarizes 8 sectors and has then normally a size of 4096 byte.
Set the Blocksize, in hddscan to 8 and try it then again.

Sorry, my English is extremely bad.