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Create a bad block on hard drive
Name: keridbey Date: November 5, 2008 at 10:39:52 Pacific OS: WinXP/2000 CPU/Ram: 1.83 Ghz / 1 Gb Product: Dell
Comment:
Is there any way to create a bad block on a hard drive on purpose? Nothing to permanently damage it; I'm testing out several pieces of disk-checking software, but for the first time, all of the equipment in my lab is working perfectly (never thought that would annoy me before). Faking a bad block so the scanners will pick it up and fix it would be sufficient for my purposes.
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: November 5, 2008 at 12:05:58 Pacific
Reply:
You can manually mark sectors as bad with norton utilities, at least you could with the older dos versions. I haven't used any of the windows versions so I don't know about them.
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