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Planker
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by Planker Mon Dec 25, 2000 3:09 am
My 27 gig maxtor HD has bad sectors and I can't write to it anymore. If I format is there anyways to leave those sectors out? Is there anything I can do?
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Wolfman
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by Wolfman Wed Dec 27, 2000 1:47 pm
If you do a full format of the hard-drive it should identify the bad sectors and mark them so you don't write to them.
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GAZZA
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by GAZZA Thu Jan 04, 2001 9:55 pm
goto Maxtors web site and download their utility for addressing such problems called powermax 2.4
here is the link
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bitSLAP
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by bitSLAP Sat Jan 06, 2001 3:10 pm
Yeah. Try a low-level format with powermax (called write verify in powermax). That might even fix the bad sectors.
Solstice
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by Solstice Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:05 am
I had the same problem with my IBM Deskstar 45gig drive. I ran IBM's drive fitness test and allowed it to perform an "Erase disk". I re-installed Win2k on an NTFS partition and then did a surface scan. Bad sectors seem to have disappeared.
