Bad sectors on harddisk (question)

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> What is conventional wisdom when you encounter bad sectors on harddisk?

If the disk is reporting bad spots, it means it's used all the spare 
sectors and it's not long for this world.  In other words, go get a new 
drive and copy everything over, while you still can.


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