Can bad cable cause bad sectors in HDD?

[crazyfool123]

Hi

I had problems in a SATA slot in my PC - the HDD would disappear from Computer Management while formatting, or would show 'format incomplete'. I replaced the cable and instantly it worked. It formatted and it was okay.

But a week later strangely some files on HDD connected to same slot would not copy, and Windows Explorer froze when trying to copy. I ran CHKDSK and it showed this: http://i.imgur.com/RONFSST.png basically it found 23 bad sectors. After 10 days I ran it again, more bad sectors.

Can someone confirm that bad cable or other CPU problem can cause bad sectors on HDD? Or is this a problem with HDD only?

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Sectors are on the disk platters, and are unaffected by cables, it's a HDD issue not cable.
http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

 

[crazyfool123]

Sectors are on the disk platters, and are unaffected by cables, it's a HDD issue not cable.
http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad-sectors-explained-why-hard-drives-get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

Thanks for your reply. It was bad clusters rather than sectors. Does that change anything? Are bad clusters also a HDD issue only?

Thanks

My specs: Its a 2 TB SATA drive, 16 GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, 64 bit

 

[popatim]

clusters is sectors, same thing.
It normally can be caused by the PSU , flakey sata power cable, excessive vibrations/shock/momement to the HDD, or just a defect in the HDD.