Once I start getting this message on client disks I strongly recommend replacement. If they dont have the money. Then I will use the disk anyway but recommend regular backup and always with a warning that in the future it will fail, just no idea when
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Note, that modern drives relocate sectors internally. So when Windows detected itâs unreadable, marked as bad, but possibly the drive internally relocated it and âreplacedâ with a good one from the spare area. You can check SMART, if it tells about relocated sectors? Usually the attribut #5 is that.
Look at the RAW value.
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Yes it checks the file system for errors and will attempt to repair, depending on what flag is used, it also checks the integrity of the drive and for bad sectors.
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Looks like I sparked a discusion for the wrong reason⌠All Win installs are NTFS so that cant explain why some Win installs are slow runners.
So what could explain why some people experience slowness in Win . It certainly happens. I had Win10 hang for ages doing updates or shutdowns.
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I would say, lack of ram and trying to run either W10 or W11 on a HDD!!!
My machine is running a Intel i5 4.10GHz Comet Lake CPU mounted on a MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK motherboard with 32GB ram and a 1tb WD NVMe booting W11 Pro with a Radeon R7 360 for the GPU!!! Built by and for me!!! It has made a very fast and stable machine!!!
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My W10 was an SSD, but only 8Gb of ram⌠so you may be right.
I think I might add poor internet connections, bad local mirror site, and users not managing their system properly.
It will run, the cpu would also be a factor!!! Internet speed would affect speed of updates!!!
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Shops here are still selling computers with windows 11 and 4gb memory. Yes windows will run but so slow and you have almost no chance of running apps on it. Totally wrong.
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8GB RAM, core i5, 96GB ssd (donât ask), Gb fiber.
Windows 10 became slooooow after a while, updates took forever, and fell apart.
The exact same system with Linux Mint: snappy, updates in a jiffy, and stayed stable.
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I donât know (yet) Windows 11 in this regard, but Windows 10 (home) had a WinSxS directory. That was always constantly only growing, never shrinking. Whatever disk maintainer was run, it just kept growing with every installed update.
So thereâs a collection of dllâs of different versions. Iâve seen WinSxS taking up 60% of a 128GB system drive. Only a complete reinstall cleans that directory (even then it starts to grow again with updates). So during times Windows just collects garbage. That may be one culprit.
Every now&then Windows needs to be reinstalled to keep it clean and fast.
Again: I donât know if Win11 behaves the same?
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Yep, that is not a good enough machine⌠mine was a core i5 with 8Gb⌠same issue.
Why is Win so memory hungry ?
OK that is a disk space issue.
I always thought coorporate software was poorly written.
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The one doesnât exclude the other.
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Yeah,nothing is absolute.
I suppose what I mean is coorporate software tends to suffer from too many programmers having a hand in it.
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EIght Gigabit? Thatâs 1.25GB, no wonder your computer was so slow.
EDIT:
Seriously though, 8GB ought to be enough to do almost anything with your computer, except the really resource intensive stuff.
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And lazy control. Bloated systems. Things added or linked not needed
Plus they never tidy up afterwards so many resources left kicking around and never dealt with
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Yes, but for some reason I can not understant Win10 and 11 seem to need 16GB before you get to run a user program.
50 years ago the procedure was to remove the OS and allow the users program to use the whole computer.
Today we seem to have reached the point where one OS needs the whole computer for itself, and there is hardly any space left for real work.
Linux is headed in that direction too.
Paul is saying the same thing
Does Gb really mean gigabits? I always type Gb or Mb. Am I wrong?
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Hi Neville, 
According to Google´s KI:
âGbâ does not mean gigabytes (GB); rather, Gb refers to gigabits, which measure data transfer speed, while GB refers to gigabytes, which measure data storage. A byte is made of 8 bits, so 1 gigabyte (GB) is equivalent to 8 gigabits (Gb).
Gigabits (Gb)
What it is: A unit of data transfer rate, measuring how fast data travels over a network connection.
Common use: Advertised for internet speeds (e.g., a 1 Gbps connection).
Example: A connection advertised as 1 Gbps has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 1 gigabit per second.
Gigabytes (GB)
What it is: A unit of data storage capacity, indicating how much data can be stored.
Common use: Used for file sizes, hard drive capacity, and other storage.
Example: A computer might have a 1 TB (terabyte) hard drive, with a 1 GB (gigabyte) file taking up a small portion of that storage.
Key Difference
- 1 GB = 8 Gb .
- This means that a 1 Gigabyte internet speed is 8 times faster than a 1 Gigabit speed, though internet speeds are almost always advertised in gigabits.
Hope it helps.
Many greetings from Rosika 
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Yes, thank you.
I have apparently been getting it wrong for years.
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Hi Neville,
you´re welcome.
To be honest, I´ve learnt something new, too.
Although I already knew about the bit/byte relationship the use case for Gb vs GB was new to me. You never stop learning. 
I don´t think I ever paid attention to the corect nomenclature either. 
Cheers from Rosika
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Wow. Somebody noticed. Still the same in Win11. Like 10% of my 256G VM disk.
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