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Discussions tagged with 'chunk sectors' on WindowsForum.com focus on hard drive issues involving groups of bad sectors, often referred to as chunk sectors. Users report problems such as system slowdowns, freezing, and blank blue screens, typically on older Windows 8 or 8.1 laptops. Troubleshooting steps include removing the drive and connecting it via USB to another computer for analysis. The tag covers hardware diagnostics and data recovery scenarios where large contiguous areas of a disk become unreadable, impacting system performance and stability.
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    Windows 8 100% bad groups of sectors

    My wife has an HP laptop, model 14-1023cl if I can read the faded label correctly. If runs Windows 8 with one of the add-ons to make it look more like earlier versions. Maybe 8.1 instead? Sorry, I don't know. Avast runs daily. A few days ago it was very slow, and froze with a blank dull blue...
    • ChuckBradley
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    • antivirus bad sectors chunk sectors data recovery device manager disk issues file system freezes hard drive hard drive failure hardware issues hp laptop mbam performance issues process management system faults troubleshooting usb adapter windows 8 windows 8.1
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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