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how to remove bad sectors
Name: giljr Date: September 25, 2002 at 16:48:40 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 32mb
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.
Name: 666 Date: September 25, 2002 at 19:47:57 Pacific
Reply:
bad sector= damage to the hard disk platter= terminal
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Response Number 2
Name: Anna Date: September 25, 2002 at 21:21:03 Pacific
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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
Name: rob Date: September 26, 2002 at 02:22:24 Pacific
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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
Name: Mike Newcomb Date: September 26, 2002 at 14:55:31 Pacific
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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.
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