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um, bad idea?
Authored by: david-bo on Jun 25, '05 11:53:33AM

It does not work like that. When a sector goes bad it is marked in the file allocation table (FAT) as "don't use". The FAT is stored in a part of the disk you can't access with normal formatting tools, including pdisk.

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