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Hitachi laptop HTS bad sectors blocking

August 30th, 2006, 19:30

Hitachi HTS548040m9atoo 40gb laptop hard drive. has bad sectors. before lowlevel format it showed 6mg in bad sectors. after - 8 kb. can i block them somehow, so they will not be used?

August 31st, 2006, 3:11

well, looks like multiple low level formating helped... all bad sectors disapeared. i will test it more...

September 3rd, 2006, 13:47

Yes ,
Use HDAT2 ,Then USe Erase "WIPE" Then Use Scan And Repair Bad Sectors In Loop

September 4th, 2006, 12:39

scan the whole hdd using victoria remap bad sectors

September 4th, 2006, 13:38

Hi Rameez,
I Like HDAT2 Better Then That Excellent Software
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