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And how to disable a bad sector?
Authored by: Auricchio on May 20, '06 11:42:46AM

The best way would be to read and rewrite the sector. This will allow the drive to remap it. I once wrote a program to do just this. Running as root, it opens the raw drive, does a seek to the sector, reads, then rewrites it.

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