Bad sector?

Hi,
I recently bought a T61P (6460-D8G) notebook with a Vista Ultimate preinstalled. I started it and finished the installation by downloading and installing all MS and Lenovo patches. Everything seemed to be working fine, until I just happened to run the Event Viewer and read some of the log entries there. I found an error message saying there is something wrong with a TCPIP.SYS -file. The message said that this file may be corrupted. Now, please note that everything, including my TCPIP connections were working just nicely - or at least as much as I can tell, they were.
So naturally I decided to run chkdsk /f. Whoa, to my amazement it found one bad sector on the disk (Hitachi 7K200, 160GB). Well, these things happen, of course, so I immediately called Lenovo support number in my country, and the friendly support person there ordered me a replacement drive and Vista restore dvd's.
The replacement drive arrived before the restore dvd's (on the next day, actually - very nice indeed!), so I decided to install the replacement drive and run the XP Pro restore CD's that had come with the notebook. XP installed nicely and everything was working as expected. So I ran chkdsk/f again. No bad sectors this time, everything OK. Fine.
Now, the Vista restore dvd's arrived a couple of days ago, so of course I wanted to restore Vista. Once again the installation went just fine and all the patches and everything was installed. I decided to run chkdsk/f again. Quess what?!?! There it is again, ONE bad sector! Having found this I also checked the Event Viewer again, and was really amazed, as there was that SAME MESSAGE again, about the TCPIP.SYS file being corrupted!
What's going on here? I realize it's possible that I've just gotten another faulty drive, but why didn't the XP chkdsk find the problem? How did the bad sector just happen to appear in exactly the same file as before? Could it be that Vista chkdsk is somehow "better"?
Is it possible that the Vista installation somehow CAUSED the bad sector to appear?
Should I try to replace the disk again? Has anyone else seen anything similar...?
Archie
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Hello Archie,
i appreciate but i haven´t paramenters regarding Hitachi Tool, but think using it won´t be complicate.
Also you coud try a Linux Live Cd and try to scan your drive with included hdd software.
Or simply start from recovery partition, press blue button at start up and ran Pc Doctor 5.0 or download it
from Lenovo Homepage and burn to cd.
Tell us your result!
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