How to fix bad sectors

cheetahman · 07-07-2005, 05:44 PM

Your disk has bad sectors (manufacturing faults or dying disk).

Could this be caused by my SuSE being corrupted and would It be fixed by reinstalling SuSE

elf · 07-07-2005, 06:02 PM

You could try...

If you don't mind formatting, your best bet is to download the manufacturers utilities and do a low level format. This will completely reset yor disk and is the best chance you have of fixing bad sectors.

07-07-2005, 05:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
cheetahman Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 24 OS: Suse 9.1 Linux/Windows XP	How to fix bad sectors Your disk has bad sectors (manufacturing faults or dying disk). Could this be caused by my SuSE being corrupted and would It be fixed by reinstalling SuSE

07-07-2005, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
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