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[Red Sandwich]

Originally posted by win98@Mar 10 2006, 06:04 PM
Thats long my1998 quatrinum HDD is still going but with 10 bad sectors it is a no no.

Not necessarily. ALL hard disks have bad sectors. Mostly you don't get to notice them because the internal drive logic moves the data to spare sectors and marks the old ones off so that they are not used again. It's only when the drive cannot recover the data or when it runs out of spare sectors that you get to become aware of them.

You should be able to deal with 10 bad sectors using SCANDISK or a similar program. It's only when the rate at which bad sectors are found keeps on increasing that you should junk the drive ASAP.