Is Total Commander VolumeBitmap aware?

[AllTimeSToneD]

Hi there

i have recently crossed a problem with one of my hdds while using total commander. I was moving a 50MB file to another drive then suddenly the progress stoped at ~30% and tc froze my system so i did a restart and just in case run chkdsk over the hdd using "chkdsk /F /R /X"

chkdsk later gave out

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1 fehlerhafte Cluster werden zur Datei der fehlerhaften Cluster hinzugefügt.
Fehler in Volumebitmap werden berichtigt.
Windows hat Probleme im Dateisystem behoben.
... 4 KB in fehlerhaften Sektoren...

So everything went fine until i tryed to move the same file again this time to another hdd to see if the problem got fixed or the other destination drive was the faulty one.

The system froze again. I tryed it several times and all with the same result. I searched on the forum for an answer but didn't find one.

Is Total Commander VolumeBitmap aware? Or does it still try to access the bad sectors?
The only way to get around this problem was to delete the file.

[ghisler(Author)]

Total Commander isn't accessing the file at low level, it's only accessing it at file level - the underlying file system makes the mapping from file position to clusters. So when the file systerm has remapped a cluster, TC will of course read the remapped cluster, not the bad one. What you describe rings all alarm bells, you should make a backup of your files as soon as possible. I also recommend that you try a tool which can read the SMART harddisk health parameters, e.g. "HDD Health":
http://www.panterasoft.com/