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Bad sector
Name: RUBAN Date: November 12, 2008 at 05:01:02 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 3.0 512
Comment:
How can fix hard drive bad sector. how can I lock certin site in ie,firefox?. I go to ie>tools>internet option> security in there any body can remove restricted site whic I added. Any software that block internet access or password protection.
Name: worldlibrary Date: November 12, 2008 at 09:33:13 Pacific
Reply:
There is no software that can fix a physical problem, whick a bad sector is.
1. CKDSK /r can scan your hard drive and move files into a new sector and then mark the bad sector so no more information is written to it.
Once you start getting bad sectors, you should start backing everything up and start looking for a new drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: November 12, 2008 at 10:35:20 Pacific
Reply:
Actually chkdsk and other softwares really don't work at the sector level [even though chkdsk says sectors] but at a collection of sectors called clusters or allocation units.
When the disk is raw it's in sectors. When you format these sectors are grouped and then they're numbered which is how the MFT tracks them.
If a cluster contains a bad sector the whole cluster is marked as unusable by chkdsk and an attempt is made to move the data to a known good cluster.
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