OT: [HW] Bad blocks on my hard drive]

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> If it actually has bad blocks, then no it isn't.  A modern disk should
> not show bad blocks.  It should remap them automatically.  Of course to
> remap them you have to actually write to the sector in question.

Indeed.  When a modern drive is manufacturered it is setup with a 
reservation of space internally to remap.  If a drive is failing to remap 
bad sectors on write it means it has run out of the reserved space.

The original poster should assume the drive is not long for this world, 
get the data off it, and get a new drive.

Rob

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