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17095 2001-08-16 11:24:00 I have 6 years old, 2 GB HDD (Samsung) with about 2 MB of bad sectors and I think ever since then, the programs I run begin to drag (slow...)

Can someone tell how to remove bad sectors from HDD?

Also, 1 in every 100 times I boot the computer, I get massage 'Hard Disk Failure'
after the Memory Check.
Why does this happen?
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17096 2001-08-16 12:32:00 When you reformat there is an option to try and remove the bad sectors, but it is rare that it can.

As for the speed problem, my guess would be that there are some in important parts of the disk, and working round them slows the system down, eg the FAT.

The average life for a HDD is only 5 years, so yours is quite old. Consider replacing the drive.
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