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how to remove bad sectors
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Name: giljr
Date: September 25, 2002 at 16:48:40 Pacific
Subject: how to remove bad sectors
OS: win98
CPU/Ram: 32mb
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Comment: does anyone know how to remove a hard disk's bad sector? mostly what feedback i get is to format it entirely. pls help. thanks.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Anna
Date: September 25, 2002 at 21:21:03 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You might try to partition your drive. Depending where the bad sectors are you might be able to reformat the drive to a smaller drive. This way the drive is still usable but with less capacity.
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Response Number 3
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Name: rob
Date: September 26, 2002 at 02:22:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)a low level format should get rid of them but if they start reapearing there may be something wrong with the drive go to your hard drive makers site to get a utility to do this
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Response Number 4
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Name: Mike Newcomb
Date: September 26, 2002 at 14:55:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You do not need a low level format to remove bad sectors. If you are wiping the disc, use the dos format command with the /C option set. This tests bad clusters and if they can be re-used it marks them as ok. However if there are many bad sectors on the hdd, consideration should be given to scrapping, before a failure causes loss of data. Good luck - keep us posted.
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