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Old 04-26-2008, 05:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: remap a hard drive

Most of the drive manufacturers have low level formatting utilities that will scan the drive sectors and record the bad sectors. This basically tells the drive not to write to those sectors.

In some cases tho the magnetic surface of the drive may just be on it's way out and just keep on generating bad sectors.

If you do a search for the drive manufacturer and low level formating tool
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