I have a new (less than 6 months) 80G Maxtor ATA 133 hard drive. During a recent freeze up and reboot I got the error that scandisk (98se) detected possible bad sectors on the drive and a thorough scandisk should be done. The thorough scandisk detected a bad cluster, marked it and attempted without success to move the data. I was under the assumption and had it confirmed by several tech republic people, as well as the vendor I bought the drive from, that when bad sectors started showing up thatthe drive was unreliable and should be replaced. I took the drive back to the store and was told that he wiped the drive, did another scandisk and the bad sector was not found. He now wants to give me back the same drive and says if it happens againhe will have it replaced. I would like to know if it is possible that this drive is really ok or am I just setting myself up for a replacement and another OS reinstall in the near future.
Thanks for your input