Bad sectors on harddisk (question)
Warren Postma
warren.postma-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 16 23:27:14 UTC 2003
Henry Spencer wrote:
>The recommended method for the second step is to *immediately* make a full
>backup and replace the disk drive. Blocks do not go bad for no reason
>during disk operation; the appearance of new bad blocks almost always
>means the disk is starting to die.
>
These days you can buy a new hard drive so cheap that it is not worth
losing your data,
unless your data is worthless. I'm with Henry on this one.
Warren
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