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make bad sectors corrupting partiti
Name: iadv Date: February 12, 2006 at 19:59:33 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 512 MB Ram Product: White box
Comment:
Actually I know that if the partition is corrupted, sometimes "software" bad sectors are shown. It means that the hard disk is logically damaged and not physically. Sometimes some viruses corrupt partitions, or power off the computer when a file is being written.
My question is that is there a way to create such bad sectors easily, but without destructing a partition?. I want to keep the partition, but make the system inform this logical bad sectors.
Name: wanderer Date: February 12, 2006 at 21:26:41 Pacific
Reply:
bad sectors are physical disk defects. This is not done by software but by the magnetic coating failing in some locations.
this is not to be confused with partition/file allocation errors which are logical structures given physical locations.
chkdsk /r and scandisk /through both map out the tested bad sectors in the file system tables as unusable. You can also download the drive manufactures diagnostics which usually contain similiar.
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