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Article #513Re: Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea?
From: Helen T. Redlus
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 00:00
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ma2jswc@bath.ac.uk (J S W Chan) wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is that once a sector is bad, it should not be reused. I've had great success using "scandisk" to correct bad sectors on a disk -- I've even been able to recover information located in those sectors. Helen >In the referenced article, jxwang@uoguelph.ca (Jian-xiong Wang) writes: >2> If the HD has crashed, and a sector is bad, possibly because the head >hit it, and it's scratched, then will a low level format be able to >recover it, and magically make it usable?? >
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