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...while formatting a harddrive. Several times during the format it paused with the message 'Trying to recover allocation unit'. Anyone know what this means? The format continues normally after a few seconds but I still wonder if the HD is going bad. I've never seen this message before.
GrayFox
7 May 2005, 9:22pm
BAD SECTORS !
Back up your data get a new drive and put that one on ebay (state that it may have a bad sector or 2) would be my recomendation.
Black Hawk
8 May 2005, 12:44am
Backup your data and run a thorough scandisk.
The disk had a non-dos partition on it and nothing else. I fdisked it and formatted it. I'll scandisk it also. Thanks.
sfleuriet
8 May 2005, 5:39am
what is a bad sector? cant windows jus pick that up and fix it?? defrag/scandisk?
Black Hawk
8 May 2005, 6:59am
A portion of a disk that cannot be used because it is flawed. When you format a disk, the operating system identifies any bad sectors on the disk and marks them so they will not be used. If a sector that already contains data becomes damaged, you will need special software to recover the data.
It’s not unusual for a hard disk to leave the manufacturing process with a damaged sector; however, this does not affect the overall performance of the disk as the damaged space is considered unusable.
GrayFox
8 May 2005, 7:16am
In my experence when a drive devlops bad sectors its goina die soon. (happened to 2 crappy samsung drives)
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