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From: Martyn Harrison
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:00

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On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:05:53 -0000, "Beecroft"
<pbeecroft@btinternet.com> wrote:

>is definitely busted! You should chuck it out i reckon if it has got to this
>stage. Mine had bad sectors and seemed to get worse each time i tried
>scandisk...

The reason for this is platter damage. Each time the heads fly over
the hole in the surface they make it grow a little larger, hence more
bad blocks. As you say, this is the end of the road for any hard disk
and it is just a question of time with the prospect of losing data at
odd moments until you change it.

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From: Martyn Harrison <martyn.harrison@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Replacing laptop HDD
Date: 2000/12/05
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