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    failing hard drive.. bad sectors.. please help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by c19932, Jul 28, 2009.

  1. c19932

    c19932 Notebook Guru

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    hey everyone, I have this old vaio and the hard drive has a LOT of bad sectors. Not planning to get a new drive, I want to mark ALL the bad sectors, but the problem is I don't know whether these bad sectors are software or physically related. Therefore if I reformat, the OS might be installed in a bad sector. Is there any way to mark ALL bad sectors(both software and phyiscally related ones) before I reformat the drive? If not, please let me know a solution to reformat without putting data onto bad sectors. Thank you. :)
     
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  2. iGrim

    iGrim Notebook Evangelist

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    Why even bother wasting time? The drive is dead. Just buy a new one. You dont have $30???
     
    iGrim, Jul 28, 2009
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